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Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1587 - Richard III, in Vol.3, p.732, detail..

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 ...

Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1587 - Richard III, in Vol.3, p.732.

The source for Richard III. One of Shakespeare's earliest plays, written about 1592, was The Tragedy of Richard III, for which the main source was Holinshed's Chronicles, but which in turn was based ...

Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1587, - record of those slain at Agincourt. Vol.3, p.555, detail.

Shakespeare read of the battle of Agincourt in these words. In working both with Holinshed and Hall's chronicles Shakespeare took pieces from both. The description of the mines at the siege of Harfleur ...

Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1587, Vol.3, title page.

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 ...

William Shakespeare, Quartos, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - Theseus goes hunting, p.F4v.

Duke Theseus’ hounds in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Theseus’s praise of his hounds echoes the words of Ovid's book three: ‘My hounds are bred out of that Spartan ...

William Shakespeare, Quartos, Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - 'Pyramus and Thisbe' play is performed, p.H2v.

The play of 'Pyramus and Thisbe' in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare’s play concludes with Duke Theseus and his wedding guests being very critical as they are entertained by the play ...