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    about Holinshed's life and for the most part his early years are primarily a matter of speculation. Holinshed was most likely born to Ralph Holinshed of...
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    Macbeth Navigator. Works by Raphael Holinshed at Project Gutenberg Holinshed's Chronicles at Project Gutenberg The Holinshed Project Archived 15 August...
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    Italian singer and pianist Raphael Holinshed (1529–1580), English chronicler Raphael Holzdeppe (born 1989), German pole vaulter Raphael Kalinowski (1835–1907)...
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    Ralph Richardson's narration is taken from the works of chronicler Raphael Holinshed. Welles had produced a Broadway stage adaptation of nine Shakespeare...
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    were dead by then. However, he did not remain silent on the matter. Raphael Holinshed, in his Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, written in 1577...
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    Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande by Raphael Holinshed, published in 1587. Holinshed himself found the story in the earlier Historia Regum...
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    Shakespeare borrowed the character Banquo from Holinshed's Chronicles, a history of Britain published by Raphael Holinshed in 1587. In Chronicles, Banquo is an...
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  • Prydain, a novel series by Lloyd Alexander. Holinshed's Chronicles, the collected works of Raphael Holinshed The Idhun Chronicles, a Netflix anime-style...
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  • sixteenth-century accounts of the murder, namely the version by chronicler Raphael Holinshed and the anonymous play Arden of Faversham. The British première was...
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    became Gaul in the 13th year of Nimrod. Later historians such as Raphael Holinshed (1577) identified Samothes as Meshech, and asserted that he first...
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  • The History of the King's Works, 4:2 (London: HMSO, 1982), p. 87. Raphael Holinshed, The Laste volume of the Chronicles of England (London, 1577) A. Jefferies...
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    who first published it. Renaissance historians like John Bale and Raphael Holinshed took the list of kings of "Celtica" given by pseudo-Berossus and made...
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  • Shakespeare's play King Lear is based on material taken secondhand (through Raphael Holinshed) from Geoffrey of Monmouth's mythical king King Leir, who has often...
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  • Hollingshead (or Holinshed) is a surname that may refer to: Raphael Holinshed (1529–1580), 16th century British author of Holinshed's Chronicles Gordon...
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  • as if he had been a wolf. The Jarmans of Colnbrook Sweeney Todd Raphael Holinshed, The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles, Comprising: 1 The Description...
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    chancellor, Michael de la Pole. According to the 16th-century chronicler Raphael Holinshed: In 1387, King Richard II sent secretly to Robert de Vere, Duke of...
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  • based on the narratives of George Cavendish (Life of Woolsey) and Raphael Holinshed, and contains a felicitous characterisation of Richard Foxe. It was...
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  • Reginald Wolfe (category Holinshed's Chronicles)
    also certain particular histories of every known nation." He hired Raphael Holinshed and William Harrison to assist in the task, but it remained unfinished...
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    Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre is situated. The chronicler Raphael Holinshed wrote in 1577 that Richard III "pitched his field on a hill called...
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    story appears in most early histories of Britain. Wace, Layamon, Raphael Holinshed, William Camden and John Milton repeat the legend and it appears in...
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    house was built at Whitehall in 1581, costing £1,744-19 shillings. Raphael Holinshed described the building, with its timbered structure covered with canvas...
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    effect, having respect to the great number, few prisoners were saved." Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, quoted by Andrew Gurr...
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  • up their own laws, and set fire to London. The later chronicles of Raphael Holinshed and John Stow, in addition to detailing the confession, repeat a story...
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    of the Tower of London, as well as the histories of Edward Hall, Raphael Holinshed, and Francis Bacon, the letters of Sir John Ramsay to Henry VII that...
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    narration, spoken by Ralph Richardson, is taken from the chronicler Raphael Holinshed.: 249  Welles held the film in high regard: "It's my favorite picture...
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    narrative of the historical Donnchad mac Crinain, King of Scots, in Raphael Holinshed's 1587 The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, a history...
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    The later chroniclers, especially Polydore Vergil, Edward Hall and Raphael Holinshed, were not interested in 'justifying' the Tudor regime by asserting...
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    edition, The Cronycles of Englond (1482), closely matches this content. Raphael Holinshed also localises the event of the "leape of Gogmagog" at Dover, but...
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    Alexander III and the circumstances surrounding his death in some detail. Raphael Holinshed, in his oft-fanciful history of England in his Chronicles, stated...
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    even more common among men of the 16th century than women, while Raphael Holinshed in 1577 confirms the practice among "lusty courtiers" and "gentlemen...
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