TY - BOOK AU - Holinshed,Raphael AU - Harrison,William AU - Hooker,John TI - Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete AV - DA PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 KW - Great Britain -- History -- To 1485 N1 - 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; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44700 ER -