Holinshed's Chronicles

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chronicle collaborative work historical work source text

Holinshed's Chronicles is a late 16th-century collaborative work of English history and legend that served as a major source for many of William Shakespeare's history plays.

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Label	Occurrences
Holinshed’s Chronicles	6
Holinshed's Chronicles canonical	4
Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles	3
Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland	1
Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland	1
Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles	1
The Chronicles of England	1
The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland	1
chronicles of the reign of Henry IV	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	chronicle ⓘ collaborative work ⓘ historical work ⓘ source text ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ surface form: Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland
author	Raphael Holinshed ⓘ
basedOn	earlier chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland ⓘ
centuryOfPublication	16th century ⓘ
contributor	Edmund Campion ⓘ John Hooker ⓘ Richard Stanyhurst ⓘ William Harrison ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	England ⓘ
editor	Raphael Holinshed ⓘ
fullTitle	Holinshed's Chronicles self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland
genre	chronicle ⓘ historiography ⓘ history ⓘ
hasPart	The Description of Britaine ⓘ The History of England ⓘ The History of Ireland ⓘ The History of Scotland ⓘ
influenced	Elizabethan dramatists ⓘ William Shakespeare ⓘ
influencedWork	Cymbeline ⓘ Henry IV, Part 1 ⓘ Henry IV, Part 2 ⓘ Henry V (play) ⓘ surface form: Henry V Henry VI, Part 3 ⓘ King Lear ⓘ Macbeth ⓘ King Richard II of England ⓘ surface form: Richard II Richard III of England ⓘ surface form: Richard III The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
notableFor	being a major source for Shakespeare’s history plays ⓘ its detailed narrative of British history ⓘ
placeOfPublication	London, England ⓘ surface form: London
publicationDate	1577 ⓘ 1587 ⓘ
publisher	Henry Bynneman ⓘ John Harrison ⓘ
subject	British legends ⓘ history of England ⓘ history of Ireland ⓘ history of Scotland ⓘ
timePeriodCovered	Tudor period ⓘ legendary early history of Britain ⓘ medieval history of England ⓘ

Referenced by (19)

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Henry IV, Part 1 → source → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

Henry IV, Part 2 → source → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Holinshed’s Chronicles

Cymbeline → sourceMaterial → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Holinshed’s Chronicles

Henry VI, Part 3 → basedOn → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles

Henry V (play) → basedOn → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

Polydore Vergil’s "Anglica Historia" → influenced → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

subject surface form: Anglica Historia

this entity surface form: Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles

Shakespeare’s play "Richard III" → basedOn → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

subject surface form: Richard III

this entity surface form: Holinshed’s Chronicles

William Shakespeare's Richard III → historicalSource → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles

Raphael Holinshed → notableWork → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Raphael Holinshed → subjectOf → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Holinshed’s Chronicles

John Stow → notableWork → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Chronicles of England

Holinshed's Chronicles → fullTitle → Holinshed's Chronicles self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Holinshed's Chronicles → alsoKnownAs → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Henriad → historicalSource → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

William Shakespeare's play "Richard II" → basedOn → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

subject surface form: Richard II

Epiphany Rising → describedIn → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: chronicles of the reign of Henry IV

Macbeth, King of Scotland → sourceOfInformation → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Holinshed’s Chronicles

Henry VI, Part 1 → influencedBy → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Holinshed’s Chronicles

Henry VI, Part 2 → basedOn → Holinshed's Chronicles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles