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5 giu 2024 · On display, among others, were rare editions of Book 15 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, The Canterbury Tales, Plutarch’s Life by Thomas North, a first edition of The Geneva Bible, an 18 th century book Shakespeare Illustrated by Charlotte Lennox, and the 1616 first edition of The ...
4 giorni fa · As with most of his chronicle histories, Shakespeare also consulted Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577; 2nd edition 1587). Holinshed took much of his information on the Wars of the Roses from Hall, even to the point of reproducing
6 giorni fa · A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then racked with guilt and paranoia.
17 giu 2024 · 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.
1 giu 2024 · Now research at a London university has unearthed a rare English 1509 copy of this book once owned by the renowned English philosopher Jeremy Bentham. And the 1494 satirical allegory, which pokes fun at various kinds of public folly, sheds new light on Bentham’s influential ethics.
3 giorni fa · Faithfully Gathered and Set Forth by Raphael Holinshed (London: 1577), 1703. Holinshed’s Chronicles compiled the work from many different historians—including John Stowe. And we know Stowe was the primary author for Holinshed’s account of Arden because Stowe’s manuscript notes on the murder are extant, and Holinshed’s discussion often follows these notes word for word.
8 giu 2024 · An ongoing effort to produce a parallel text of the first two editions of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577, rev. 1587), which was a major source for many works by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan writers.
