Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles (Oxford Handbooks)
by: Paulina Kewes (Editor),Ian W Archer(Editor),Felicity Heal(Editor)&1more
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Edition: Illustrated
Publication Date: 27 Dec. 2012
Language: English
Print Length: 812 pages
ISBN-10: 0199565759
ISBN-13: 9780199565757
Book Description
The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare. While scholars have long been drawn to Holinshed for its qualities as a source, they typically dismissed it as a baggy collection of materials, lacking coherent form and analytical insight. This condescending verdict has only recently given way to an appreciation of the literary and historical qualities of these chronicles.
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Review The editors deserve to be congratulated on an elegant and provocative collection which in its multi-vocality suggests numerous directions for future research. ― Jason Scott-Warren, Notes and QueriesThe Handbook is an extremely valuable aid to the fruitful exploration of the varieties of Elizabethan thought and experience. ― C. S. L. Davies, English Historical Reviewthis collection is of the first importance for understanding Elizabethan history and historiography in a very wide range of senses, and as Shakespeare and his collaborators relied heavily on the Chronicles for texts beyond the history plays, readers should take the time to make full use of this excellent essay collection. ― Year's Work in English StudiesThis book is a major boon for Shakespeare specialists, who should have it in their institutional library, if not on their personal bookshelf. ― John D. Cox, Shakespeare QuarterlyThe Oxford Handbook of Holinshedâs Chronicles is a fascinating collection of essays. ... It will be a vital reference work for scholars for years to come and in particular for those writing on Elizabethan literature and drama. ― Thomas Betteridge, Renaissance QuarterlyThis is a superb collection of essays ... this excellent work bridges digital humanities with printed results, creating a volume useful for scholars and students in a multiplicity of early modern fields of study. ― Carole Levin and Andrea Nichols, Sixteenth Century Journala major step forward ... The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles is a major achievement and will be welcomed by early modern scholars of all stripes. ― Christopher Highley, Huntington Library QuarterlyWhat editors Paulina Kewes, Ian W. Archer, and Felicity Heal have assembled in the Handbook is a thorough overview of the competing concerns that surround the Chronicles ... At almost eight hundred pages long, the Handbook threatens, upon first appearance, to be an unwieldy account of the Chronicles; and yet, as the reader begins "actively to engage with the text," it becomes three-dimensional in the composite perspective formed through the many varied angles from which the Chronicles are viewed. ― William J. Humphries, The Spenser Review
Book Description A groundbreaking study of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, which was a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays
About the Author Paulina Kewes is Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her research interests focus on early modern drama, politics, and historiography. She is the author of Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710 (1998) and, editor or co-editor of Plagiarism in Early Modern England (2003), The Uses of History in Early Modern England (2006), and The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England (2013). Ian W. Archer has been Fellow and Tutor in History at Keble College, Oxford since 1991. His primary research interests lie in the history of early modern London, and he has also published on history and memory. He is a Literary Director of the Royal Historical Society. Felicity Heal is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. Her research interests lie in the religious history of Britain and Ireland during the Reformation, in the social history of the gentry, and in gift giving and reciprocity in early modern England. She has written extensively on all these subjects. She is consultant editor for the sixteenth-century section of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.
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