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  1. Raphael Holinshed (/ ˈ h ɒ l ɪ n ʃ ɛ d /; c. 1525 – before 24 April 1582) was an English chronicler, who was most famous for his work on The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, commonly known as Holinshed's Chronicles.

  2. Raphael Holinshed was an English chronicler, remembered chiefly because his Chronicles enjoyed great popularity and became a quarry for many Elizabethan dramatists, especially Shakespeare, who found, in the second edition, material for Macbeth, King Lear, Cymbeline, and many of his historical.

  3. Holinshed's Chronicles, also known as Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, is a collaborative work published in several volumes and two editions, the first edition in 1577, and the second in 1587. It was a large, comprehensive description of British history published in three volumes ( England, Scotland and ...

  4. Jan 5, 2009 · One of a uniform series of chronicles published under the superintendence of Sir Henry Ellis and others. The 1577 edition was compiled by Holinshed, William Harrison and Richard Stanyhurst; the 1587 edition was edited by John Hooker, assisted by Francis Thynne, Abraham Fleming and John Stow.

  5. The Holinshed Project Texts. Welcome to the texts of Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. The site displays the two editions of the Chronicles, published in 1577 and 1587. The two editions are significantly different, and those new to Holinshed may benefit from the discussion of some of those differences elsewhere on this site.

  6. In Henry IV, Part 1. taken primarily from Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, but Sir John Falstaff and his Eastcheap cronies are original creations (with some indebtedness to popular traditions about Prince Hal’s prodigal youth that had been incorporated into a play of the 1580s called The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth) who add an element…

  7. May 21, 2018 · Holinshed, Raphael (c.1520–c.1581). Holinshed was the author and compiler of Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande, published in 1577. A second and enlarged edition in 1587 was edited by John Vowell and took the story into recent times.