Works of Raphael Holinshed

Corineus, in medieval British legend, was a prodigious warrior, a fighter of giants, and the eponymous founder of Cornwall. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain , he led the descendants of the Trojans who fled with Antenor after the Trojan War and settled on the coasts of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

After Brutus, a descendant of the Trojan prince Aeneas, had been exiled from Italy and liberated the enslaved Trojans in Greece, he encountered Corineus and his people, who joined him in his travels. In Gaul, Corineus provoked a war with Goffarius Pictus, king of Aquitania, by hunting in his forests wi Arden Must Die German: Arden muss sterben is an opera by Alexander Goehr. The libretto draws on two sixteenth-century accounts of the murder, namely the version by chronicler Raphael Holinshed and the anonymous play Arden of Faversham.

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. It is traditionally believed to be the scene of the murder of King Edward II in He appears to have controlled a substantial portion of south-eastern Britain, and is called "King of the Britons" Britannorum rex by Suetonius. Gogmagog was the last of the Giants found by Brutus and his men inhabiting the land of Albion. The effigies of Gogmagog and Corineus, used in English pagentry and later instituted as guardian statues at Guildhall in London eventually earned the familiar names "Gog and Magog".

Etymology The name "Gogmagog" is often connected to the biblical characters Gog and Magog;[1] however Manley Pope, author of an English translation of the Welsh chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd itself a translation of Monmouth's "Historia Regum Britanni King Lear and the Fool in the Storm by William Dyce — — the depiction of the heath of a popular and critical fallacy of interpretation. It depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character, after he disposes of his kingdom by giving bequests to two of his three daughters egged on by their continual flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all.

Derived from the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king, the play has been widely adapted for the stage and motion pictures, with the title role coveted by many of the world's most accomplished actors. The first attribution to Shakespeare of this play, originally drafted in or at the latest with its first known performance on St. Stephen's Day in , was a publication in a quarto of uncertain provenance, in which the play is listed as a history; it may be an early draft or simply reflect the first performance text.

The Tragedy of King Lear, a William Harrison 18 April — 24 April was an English clergyman, whose Description of England was produced as part of the publishing venture of a group of London stationers who produced Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles and His contribution to Holinshed's work drew heavily on the earlier work of John Leland.

Thomas the Apostle, to John and Anne Harrison. Raised in Protestant circles, Harrison entered Christ Church, Oxford and in was awarded his bachelor's degree. Harrison claimed that he returned to Protestant belief before Mary's death in after hearing the words of Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, three Protestant martyrs burned at the stake in Oxford.

The White Cliffs of Dover may have given rise to the name Albion. Albion is the oldest known name of the island of Great Britain. Today, it is still sometimes used poetically to refer to the island. The name for Scotland in the Celtic languages is related to Albion: These names were later Latinised as Albania and Anglicised as Albany, which were once alternative names for Scotland. New Albion and Albionoria "Albion of the North" were briefly suggested as names of Canada during the period of the Canadian Confederation. A poster for a c. Depicted, anti-clockwise from top-left, are: Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches; just after the murder of Duncan; Banquo's ghost; Macbeth duels Macduff; and Macbeth.

Macbeth ; full title The Tragedy of Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, who was patron of Shakespeare's acting company, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with his sovereign.

Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth mu The Matter of Britain is the body of Medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain, and sometimes Brittany, and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur. It was one of the three great story cycles recalled repeatedly in medieval literature, together with the Matter of France, which concerned the legends of Charlemagne, and the Matter of Rome, which included material derived from or inspired by classical mythology.

Of France, and of Britain, and of Rome the grand.

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A learned and devout Protestant, he settled in England some time before and established himself as a bookseller at St. Wolfe began to print in He was the first printer in England to maintain a large stock of Greek type. Despite his Protestantism, Mary made him one of the original members of the Stationers' Company. Under Elizabeth, he served as Master of the Company in , , and In , he conceived a project for a "Universal Cosmography of the whole world, and therewith also certain particular histories of every known nation.

Title page of the first quarto Arden of Faversham original spelling: Arden of Feversham is an Elizabethan play, entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 3 April , and printed later that same year by Edward White. It depicts the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife Alice Arden and her lover, and their subsequent discovery and punishment.

The play is notable as perhaps the earliest surviving example of domestic tragedy, a form of Renaissance play which dramatized recent and local crimes rather than far-off and historical events. The author is unknown, and the play has been attributed to Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare, solely or collaboratively, forming part of the Shakespeare Apocrypha.

The use of computerized stylometrics has kindled academic interest in determining the authorship. The edition of The Oxford Shakespeare attributes the play to Shakespeare together with an anonymous collaborator, and rejects the possibility of authorship by Kyd or Marlowe.

The Ashby Canal passes to the south of the hill. The hill is the site of the deserted medieval village of Anebein. The chronicler Raphael Holinshed wrote in that Richard III "pitched his field on a hill called Anne Beame, refreshed his soldiers and took his rest". Hutton's book "The Battle of Bosworth Field", published in , was very influential in causing the hill to be accepted as the site of the battle.

Q1, , was published by the stationer Sampson Clarke, with no attribution of authorship. The title page of Q1 states that the play was performed by Queen Elizabeth's Men. Although The Troublesome Reign is not an exceptionally long play, about lines longer than Shakespeare's, the initial publication split the play into two parts. The scholarly literature often refers to Parts 1 and 2 of the play as a result. Q2, , was published by John Helme printed by Valentine Simmes ; the authorship was assigned to "W.

Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the chronicler. This is in contrast to a narrative or history, which sets selected events in a meaningful interpretive context and excludes those the author does not see as important.

Chronicler information sources vary; some chronicles are written from first-hand knowledge, some are from witnesses or participants in events, still others are accounts passed mouth to mouth prior to being written down. Charters, letters, or the works of earlier chroniclers. Alaxandair mac Alaxandair; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair 4 September — 19 March was King of Scots from until his death in Alexander's father died on 8 July and he became king at the age of seven, inaugurated at Scone on 13 July The years of his minority featured an embittered struggle for the control of affairs between two rival parties, the one led by Walter Comyn, Earl of Menteith, the other by Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia.

The former dominated the early years of Alexander's reign. At the marriage of Alexander to Margaret of England in , Henry III of England seized the opportunity to demand from his son-in-law homage for the Scottish kingdom, but Alexander did not comply. Stylistic evidence indicates that individual scenes were written by either Shakespeare or his collaborator and successor, John Fletcher.

It is also somewhat characteristic of the late romances in its structure.

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It is noted for having more stage directions than any of Shakespeare's other plays. Sir Andrew Barton c. He gained notoriety as a privateer, making raids against Portuguese ships. He was killed in battle and memorialised in English and Scottish folk songs. Andrew became notorious in England and Portugal as a 'pirate', though as a seaman who operated under the aegis of a letter of marque on behalf of the Scottish crown, he may be described as a privateer. John's ships had been attacked by Portuguese vessels when he was trading at Sluis in Flanders.

A Victorian era, romanticised depiction of a member of the clan by R. Clan MacFarlane Scottish Gaelic: Descended from the medieval Earls of Lennox, the MacFarlanes occupied the land forming the western shore of Loch Lomond from Tarbet up-wards. The clan was noted for the night time cattle raiding of neighbouring clan lands, particularly those of Clan Colquhoun , and as such a full moon became known locally as "MacFarlane's Lantern".

The ancestral lands of the clan were held by the chiefs until they were sold off for debts, in Since the chiefship has been dormant, no one having claimed or obtained rematriculation of the Chief Arms making Clan MacFarlane a supposed Armigerous clan. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon in Northumberland against Douglas late in and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of Berwick upon Tweed and its castle were captured by the English in during the Anglo-Scottish Wars.

The follow-up invasion of Scotland under the command of Edward's brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester failed to install Albany on the throne, but the border town of Berwick upon Tweed has remained English ever since the castle surrendered on 24 August The English army left Edinburgh with a promise for the repayment of the dowry paid for the marriage of Princess Cecily of England to the Scottish Prince. The betrothal was made in October with a forty-five year truce to last until Her dowry payments were to be made yearly on 3 Februar His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith.

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Sometime between and , he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 around , he appears to have retired t The Alehouse dagger or bum dagger also occasionally a swapping dagger, close-hilted dagger, and ale dagger is a type of long, heavy English dagger or shortsword.

It was the standard form of dagger in England from the sixteenth to the mid eighteenth centuries, and consisted of a long, broad, straight blade, with a large, heavy basket hilt which was used as a knuckle duster. They generally weighed two or three pounds, and were worn on the lower back hence the term bum dagger. They were common civilian weapons, effective against swords and polearms, and short enough to be used easily in the confines of a crowded pub.

They hold a striking resemblance to the three Fates of classical mythology, and are, perhaps, intended as a twisted version of the white-robed incarnations of destiny. The witches eventually lead Macbeth to his demise. Other possible sources, aside from Shakespeare's imagination, include British folklore, such contemporary treatises on witchcraft as King James VI of Scotland's Daemonologie, the Norns of Norse mythology, and ancient classical myths of the Fates: Productions of Macbeth began incorporating portions of Thomas Middleton's contemporaneous play The Witch circa , two years after Shakespeare's death.

Shakespeare's witches are prophets who hail Macbeth, the general, early in the play, and predict his ascent to kingship. William Shakespeare's style of writing was borrowed from the conventions of the day and adapted to his needs. Overview William Shakespeare's first plays were written in the conventional style of the day. He wrote them in a stylised language that does not always spring naturally from the needs of the characters or the drama. For example, the grand speeches in Titus Andronicus, in the view of some critics, often hold up the action, and the verse i The book takes a Yorkist point of view and proceeds from the conceit that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed impostor was indeed Richard of Shrewsbury.

Each chapter opens with a quotation. Plot and themes In this novel, Mary Shelley returned Chronological dating, or simply dating, is the process of attributing to an object or event a date in the past, allowing such object or event to be located in a previously established chronology. This usually requires what is commonly known as a "dating method". Several dating methods exist, depending on different criteria and techniques, and some very well known examples of disciplines using such techniques are, for example, history, archaeology, geology, paleontology, astronomy and even forensic science, since in the latter it is sometimes necessary to investigate the moment in the past in which the death of a cadaver occurred.

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Works of Thomas Nashe. King Henry IV Part 2. Chronicles 1 of 6: The Historie of England 2 of 8. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland 2 of 6: England 6 of 12 Richard the First. England 3 of 12 Henrie I. England 5 of 12 Henrie the Second. England 2 of 12 William Rufus. How to write a great review. The review must be at least 50 characters long. The title should be at least 4 characters long. Your display name should be at least 2 characters long.

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