Date:1587
Description:A text that Shakespeare followed closely. William Shakespeare’s history plays, from Richard II to Richard III and Henry VIII, are closely based on aspects of history he found in this later edition of the Chronicles. Here sections of text are often altered only slightly to create the verse and prose speeches of the plays, such as incidents of the battle of Shrewsbury in Henry IV, Part 1, and the Salic law speech in Henry V are very close to Holinshed. When Shakespeare read of a soldier hanged for stealing from a church he made his character Bardolph the victim. See: 1 Henry IV, 5,4. Henry V, 1,2, lines 33-95, and 4,4, 64-70. 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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