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HOLINSHED (or HOLLINGSIIEAD), RAPHAEL (d. c. 158o)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 584 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HOLINSHED (or HOLLINGSIIEAD), RAPHAEL (d. c. 158o) , English chronicler, belonged probably to a Cheshire family, and according to Anthony
Wood
  was educated at one of the Englishuniversities, afterwards becoming a " minister of God's Word." The authenticity of these facts is doubtful, although it is possible that Raphael was the
Holinshed
  who matriculated from Christ's College,
Cambridge
 , in 1544. About 156o he came to London and was employed as a translator by Reginald or Rtyner Wolfe, to whom he says he was " singularly beholden." Wolfe was already engaged in the preparation of a universal history, and
Holinshed
  worked for some years on this undertaking; but after Wolfe's death in 1573 the scope of the
work
  was abridged, and it appeared in 1578 as the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The
work
  was in two volumes, which were illustrated, and although Holinshed did a
great
  deal of the work he received valuable assistance from William Harrison (15341593) and others, while the part dealing with the history of Scotland is mainly a translation of Hector Boece's Scotorum historiae. Afterwards, as is shown by his will, Holinshed served as steward to
Thomas
  Burdet of Bramcott, Warwickshire, and died about 1580.
A second edition of the Chronicles, enlarged and improved but without illustrations, which appeared in 1587, contained statements which were offensive to Queen Elizabeth and her advisers, and immediately after publication some of the pages were excised by order of the privy council. These excisions were published separately in 1723.. An edition of the Chronicles, in accordance with the
original
  text, was published in six volumes in 1808. The work contains a large amount of information, and shows that its compilers were men of
great
  industry; but its
chief
 
interest
  lies in the fact that it was largely used by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists; Shakespeare, who probably used the edition of 1587, obtaining from the Chronicles material for most of his historical plays, and also for Macbeth, King Lear and part of Cymbeline. A single manuscript by Holinshed is known to be extant. This is a translation of Florence of Worcester, and is in the British Museum. See W. G. Boswell-Stone, Shakspere's Holinshed. The Chronicle and the historical plays compared (London, 1896).


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