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100 1 _aHolinshed, Raphael
245 1 0 _aHolinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holinshed%27s_Chronicles
500 _aRelease date is 2014-01-18
508 _aProduced by Jonathan Ingram, Lesley Halamek and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aGreat Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
653 _aGreat Britain -- History -- To 1485
700 1 _aHarrison, William,
_d1534-1593
700 1 _aHooker, John,
_d1526?-1601
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44700
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