Date:1587
Description:Shakespeare’s Richard III was derived from the history written in this text. Besides using the Chronicles of Holinshed and other contemporaries, as his source for his history plays Shakespeare also took elements of classical literature such as the Furies, in the way he presented Queen Margaret's lamentations and cries for revenge. Richard III, 4,4, lines 1-125. 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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Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Library
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