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2 giorni fa · Shakespeare's most important source is probably the second edition of The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande by Raphael Holinshed, published in 1587. Holinshed himself found the story in the earlier Historia Regum Britanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth, which was written in the 12th century.
5 ore fa · Over a decade after Stow’s account, Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, known as Holinshed’s Chronicles (1577 and 1587), was published. In the nineteenth century, scholars identified that William Shakespeare drew in 13 of his plays on the 1587 version which is why it is ‘often referred to as “Shakespeare’s Holinshed”’ (Story Donno, 1987 , p. 229).
10 lug 2024 · The main source of the play was Raphael Holinshed ’s Chronicles, but Shakespeare may also have been influenced by an earlier play about King Henry V called The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth.
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1 lug 2024 · The historical facts in the play were taken primarily from Raphael Holinshed ’s Chronicles, but Sir John Falstaff and his Eastcheap cronies are original creations (with some indebtedness to popular traditions about Prince Hal’s prodigal youth that had been incorporated into a play of the 1580s called The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth) who ...
4 giorni fa · Shakespeare's primary source for Henry IV, Part 1, as for most of his chronicle histories, was the second edition (1587) of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles, which in turn drew on Edward Hall's The Union of the Two Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York.
1 lug 2024 · The historical facts of the play were taken primarily from Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, but Sir John Falstaff and the other comic secondary characters are original. In Henry IV, Part 2 these Eastcheap figures dominate the action even more than they do in Part 1.
5 lug 2024 · In Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, which is Shakespeare’s source for much of Macbeth, Holinshed refers to Lady Macbeth as "very ambitious and burning in...
