Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record , The making of Holinshed. The Genesis of the Two Editions , Historiography. Holinshed and the Native Chronicle Tradition , Form, style, and reception. Genres , Politics, society, and religion. Monarchy , Literary appropriations. History Plays and the Royal Succession , Archipelagic Holinshed. Archipelagic History , The genesis of the two editions , Printers, publishers, and the Chronicles as artefact , Censorship , Sources : 1577 , Sources : 1587 , Harrison's 'Chronology' and descriptions of Britain , Illustrations in the 1577 edition , Holinshed and the native Chronicle tradition , Holinshed and mythical history , Holinshed and the Middle Ages , Harrison and Leland , Holinshed and Hall , Holinshed and Foxe , Later historians and Holinshed , The wider world of chronicling , Genres , Rhetoric , Holinshed and the classics , Shows and pageants , Narrative voice and influencing the reader , Readership and reception , Monarchy , Social order and disorder , Religious ideology , Providentialism , War , The international context , Tudor kings and queens , History plays and the royal succession , Shakespeare and Medieval history , Shakespeare and British history , Spenser and Holinshed , Daniel and Holinshed , Later appropriations , Archipelagic history , Mapping England and Wales , England , Scotland , Ireland , Wales

Note: Includes bibliography and index