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Raphael Holinshed's account of English history from 1377-1485 in the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland is most well-known as the source of Shakespeare's English history plays. Although the Chronicles are widely read and studied, published scholarly opinion, with a few exceptions, has been limited to the discipline of history. This book explores the historiographic materials of the Chronicles through a literary lens, focusing on how Renaissance men and women read historical texts, framed by these questions: How did Holinshed understand and view history? What were his motives in...

King Johna s evil reputation has outlasted and proved more enduring than that of Richard III, whose notoriety seemed ensured thanks to Shakespearea s portrayal of him. The paradox is even greater when we realize that this portrait of John endures despite Shakespearea s portrait of him in the play King John, where he hardly comes off as a villain at all. Here Igor Djordjevic argues that the story of Johna s transformation in cultural memory has never been told completely, perhaps because the crucial moment in Johna s change back to villainy is a literary one: it occurs at the point when the...