When did Raphael Holinshed write his chronicles?

August 2, 2020December 29, 2011 by Pamela Landy

Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland appeared in 1577.

This history was Shakespeare’s source for much of Macbeth, King Lear, and Cymbeline. Holinshed died about 1580.

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