Holinshed

Holinshed
Holinshed
 
['hɔlɪnʃed], Holinshead ['hɔlɪnzhed], Raphael, englischer Geschichtsschreiber, ✝ Bramcote (bei Nuneaton) um 1580. Sein aus älteren Werken weitgehend unkritisch übernommenes Geschichtswerk »Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland« (1577) diente den elisabethanischen Dramatikern, unter ihnen Shakespeare, als wichtige Materialsammlung.
 
Ausgaben: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, 6 Bände (1807-08, Nachdruck 1976); Holinshed's Chronicle as used in Shakespeare's plays, herausgegeben von A. Nicoll u. a. (Neuausgabe 1978).

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