Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by Holinshed, Harrison, and Hooker
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"Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine" by Holinshed, Harrison, and Hooker is a collaborative historical work published in 1577, with a revised edition in 1587. This comprehensive chronicle of British history became one of Renaissance literature's most influential sources, providing material for Shakespeare's history plays and tragedies including Macbeth and King Lear. The work emerged from an ambitious project to document the British Isles through detailed descriptions, maps, and chronologies,
transforming historical narrative into a resource that shaped literary imagination for generations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Holinshed, Raphael, -1580? |
|---|---|
| Author | Harrison, William, 1534-1593 |
| Author | Hooker, John, 1526?-1601 |
| Title | Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holinshed%27s_Chronicles |
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Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Lesley Halamek and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 63.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe |
| Subject | Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 |
| Subject | Great Britain -- History -- To 1485 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 42506 |
| Release Date | Apr 11, 2013 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 651 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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