The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles
Paulina Kewes, "The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles "
English | ISBN: 0199565759 | 2013 | 800 pages | EPUB, PDF | 21 MB + 11 MB
English | ISBN: 0199565759 | 2013 | 800 pages | EPUB, PDF | 21 MB + 11 MB
The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare. While scholars have long been drawn to Holinshed for its qualities as a source, they typically dismissed it as a baggy collection of materials, lacking coherent form and analytical insight. This condescending verdict has only recently given way to an appreciation of the literary and historical qualities of these chronicles.
The Handbook is a major interdisciplinary undertaking which gives the lie to Holinshed's detractors, and provides original interpretations of a book that has lacked sustained academic scrutiny. Bringing together leading specialists in a variety of fields - literature, history, religion, classics, bibliography, and the history of the book - the
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