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Reading Holinshed's Chronicles (Hardcover, New)
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Reading Holinshed's Chronicles (Hardcover, New)
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Holinshed's Chronicles - a massive history of England, Scotland,
and Ireland - has traditionally been read as the source material
for many of Shakespeare's plays or as an archaic form of history
writing. In the first major study of this sixteenth-century
masterpiece, Annabel Patterson insists that the Chronicles be read
in their own right as an important and inventive cultural history.
Patterson examines the remarkable collaborative authorship of this
history. Although it is known by the name of Raphael Holinshed,
editor and major compiler of the 1577 edition, the Chronicles was
the work of a group, a collaboration between antiquarians,
clergymen, members of Parliament, poets, publishers, and
booksellers. Also, since the second edition of 1587 was called in
by the Privy Council and revised under supervision, the work
constitutes an important test case for the history of early modern
censorship. Through a detailed reading, Patterson argues that the
Chronicles convey rich insights into the way the Elizabethan middle
class understood their society. Responding to the crisis of
disunity that resulted from the Reformation, the authors of the
Chronicles embodied and encouraged an ideal of justice, what we
would now call liberalism, that extended beyond the writing of
history into the realms of politics, law, economics, citizenship,
class, and gender.
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