TY - BOOK AU - Holinshed,Raphael TI - Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (01 of 12): William the Conqueror AV - DA PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 KW - Great Britain -- History -- William I, 1066-1087 KW - Great Britain -- History -- To 1485 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holinshed%27s_Chronicles; Release date is 2005-09-24; Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Louise Pryor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (01 of 12)" by Raphael Holinshed is a collaborative historical work first published in 1577. This comprehensive description of British history became a primary source for Renaissance writers, most notably William Shakespeare. The Chronicles provided material for Shakespeare's history plays and influenced works like Macbeth, King Lear, and Cymbeline. Through rhetorical figures and thematic paradigms, it establishes ideals of nation, monarchy, and heroism, offering readers a window into how Renaissance audiences understood their own history and political landscape. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16738 ER -