Shakespere's Holinshed
Subtitle: The Chronicle and the Historical Plays Compared
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: December 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9781402186677
Subjects: commentary,estimation,research,history of literature,literary criticism,study of literature,chronicle,historical plays,Shakespere; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: HOLINSHED'S Chronicles, and a play of untraced authorship, entitled The True Chronicle History of King Leir, 1605, were the chief and most accessible sources whence Shakspere might have derived the main plot of his drama.