Date:1587
Description:The account of English history that Shakespeare read. Holinshed embarked on revision of the Chronicles, but died in 1580, leaving his notes to be used by the men whose names appeared in the printer's publication note [colophon] at the end of the three large folio volumes published in 1586-7. The work of other chroniclers including Robert Fabyan and Edward Hall was included in early parts of the Chronicles which covered Noah’s flood, through Guiderius and King Lear to the reign of Elizabeth I. Shakespeare used the chronicles of both Holinshed and Edward Hall for his plays, for example in Henry V Hall, but not Holinshed records the archbishop’s comments about the forces in the English marches being enough to defend England while Henry V is away in France. Holinshed mentions Westmoreland's wish for 10,000 more men to put into the field at Agincourt, but Hall does not record this. See: Henry V, 1, 2, lines 140-142, and 4,3, lines 17-22. Full title: Raphael Holinshed, The first and second volumes of chronicles[The thirde volume, etc.]... Now newlie augmented and continued... to the yeare 1586 by Iohn Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others... [London] at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587.
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