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Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete

Por: Colaborador(es): Tipo de material: TextoIdioma: en Editor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2014Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido:
  • text
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  • online resource
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  • Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Lesley Halamek and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Resumen: "Holinshed's Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete" is a collaborative historical work published in 1577. This comprehensive description of British history became a cornerstone source for Renaissance literature, most notably inspiring Shakespeare's plays including Macbeth, King Lear, and his history plays. The Chronicles blend national, royal, and heroic ideals through detailed narratives of Britain's past. Though Shakespeare drew heavily from these pages, he transformed the material—changing sympathetic rulers into tragic villains, brief mentions into complex characters, and historical accounts into timeless drama that diverged significantly from Holinshed's original tales. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holinshed%27s_Chronicles

Release date is 2014-01-18

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Lesley Halamek and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

"Holinshed's Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete" is a collaborative historical work published in 1577. This comprehensive description of British history became a cornerstone source for Renaissance literature, most notably inspiring Shakespeare's plays including Macbeth, King Lear, and his history plays. The Chronicles blend national, royal, and heroic ideals through detailed narratives of Britain's past. Though Shakespeare drew heavily from these pages, he transformed the material—changing sympathetic rulers into tragic villains, brief mentions into complex characters, and historical accounts into timeless drama that diverged significantly from Holinshed's original tales. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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