TY - BOOK AU - Holinshed,Raphael TI - Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8): The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England AV - DA PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holinshed%27s_Chronicles; Release date is 2005-08-27; Jonathan Ingram, Lesley Halamek and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8)" by Raphael Holinshed is a historical chronicle published in 1577, with a revised edition in 1587. This comprehensive account of British history became a cornerstone source for Renaissance writers, most notably William Shakespeare. The Chronicles provided material for Shakespeare's history plays and tragedies including Macbeth and King Lear, though Shakespeare transformed Holinshed's narratives significantly. The work presents historical figures and events through rhetorical conventions that defined national and royal ideals, offering insight into how Elizabethan audiences understood their past. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16610 ER -