オックスフォード版 ホリンシェッド『年代記』ハンドブック The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles (Oxford Handbooks)

Kewes, Paulina (EDT)/ Archer, Ian W. (EDT)/ Heal, Felicity (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2012/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 812 p.／サイズ 22 halftones
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199565757
• DDC分類 941

基本説明

This groundbreaking study of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, which was a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays, brings together forty articles by leading specia;ists in history, literature, religion, and the classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of this greatest of Elixabethan chronicles.

Full Description

The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare. While scholars have long been drawn to Holinshed for its qualities as a source, they typically dismissed it as a baggy collection of materials, lacking coherent form and analytical insight. This condescending verdict has only recently given way to an appreciation of the literary and historical qualities of these chronicles.

The Handbook is a major interdisciplinary undertaking which gives the lie to Holinshed's detractors, and provides original interpretations of a book that has lacked sustained academic scrutiny. Bringing together leading specialists in a variety of fields - literature, history, religion, classics, bibliography, and the history of the book - the Handbook demonstrates that the Chronicles powerfully reflect the nature of Tudor thinking about the past, about politics and society, and about the literary and rhetorical means by which readers might be persuaded of the truth of narrative. The volume shows how distinctive it was for one book to chronicle the history of three nations of the British archipelago.

The various sections of the Handbook analyse the making of the two editions of the Chronicles; the relationship of the work to medieval and early modern historiography; its formal properties, genres and audience; attitudes to politics, religion, and society; literary appropriations; and the parallel descriptions and histories of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The result is a seminal study that shows unequivocally the vitality and complexity of the chronicle form in the late sixteenth century.

Contents

I: THE MAKING OF HOLINSHED; II: HISTORIOGRAPHY; III: FORM, STYLE, AND RECEPTION; IV: POLITICS, SOCIETY, AND RELIGION; V: LITERARY APPROPRIATIONS; VI: ARCHIPELAGIC HOLINSHED