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Shakespeare read Holinshed, North, Greene, Sidney, and Lodge and turned some of their suggestions into poetry, which we very much prefer to their prose. We are nearly certain that Shakespeare studied Lyly's Euphues, because we can trace the influence of that work in his style. It was the misfortune of Elizabethan prose to be almost completely overshadowed by the poetry.
Pierce, and adjusted together how we should spend to-morrow together, and so by coach I home to dinner, where Kate Joyce was, as I invited her, and had a good dinner, only she and us; and after dinner she and I alone to talk about her business, as I designed; and I find her very discreet, and she assures me she neither do nor will incline to the doing anything towards marriage, without my advice, and did tell me that she had many offers, and that Harman and his friends would fain have her; but he is poor, and hath poor friends, and so it will not be advisable: but that there is another, a tobacconist, one Holinshed, whom she speaks well of, to be a plain, sober man, and in good condition, that offers her very well, and submits to me my examining and inquiring after it, if I see good, which I do like of it, for it will be best for her to marry, I think, as soon as she can at least, to be rid of this house; for the trade will not agree with a young widow, that is a little handsome, at least ordinary people think her so.
Elizabethan Prose. Good selections from Ascham, Hakluyt, Raleigh, Holinshed, Stow, Camden, North, Sidney, Foxe, Hooker, Lyly, Greene, Lodge, and Nashe are given in Craik, I. Chambers, I. and Manly, II. also give a number of selections. Deloney's The Gentle Craft may be found in the Clarendon Press edition of his Works. For Bacon, see Craik, II.
Livingstone brought with him to England a piece of the Zambesi iron, which he sent to a skilled Birmingham blacksmith to test. The result was, that he pronounced the metal as strongly resembling Swedish or Russian; both of which kinds are smelted with charcoal. The African iron was found "highly carbonized," and "when chilled it possessed the properties of steel." HOLINSHED, i. 517.
In 1359 Holinshed relates that the king "set workmen in hand to take down much old buildings belonging to the castle, and caused divers other fine and sumptuous works to be set up in and about the same castle, so that almost all the masons and carpenters that were of any account in the land were sent for and employed about the same works."
The earlier critic saw the absurdity of such a supposition when he wrote: "Shakspere may have raised the wizard and witches of the latter parts of Holinshed to the weird sisters of the former parts, but the converse process is impossible."
* P. 525, edited 1563. But Holinshed, a far more credible witness tells us that: * Chronicle, fol. ed., 1586, p. 944. Answer to Foxes assertion. There is another class of anecdote in the Acts and Monuments, the errors of which do not lie so much in the facts of the story as in the oblique vision of Foxe himself, in regarding the dramatis personae, as heroes.
Hall's authorities among French writers were Monstrelet, Bouchet, Mayer, Argentan, Gile Corozet, and the annals of France and Aquitaine and of English writers, Fabyan, Caxton, John Harding, Sir Thomas More, Basset, Balantyne, and the Chronicle of London. The annalist Stow, Hume's 'honest historian, is less unjust and bitter in his account of Joan of Arc than are Hall and Holinshed.
Wallace's Shakespeare, the Globe, and Blackfriars. How Shakespeare's Senses were Trained, Chap. X. in Halleck's Education of the Central Nervous System. Rolfe's Shakespeare the Boy. Boswell-Stone's Shakespeare's Holinshed. Brooke's Shakespeare's Plutarch, 2 vols. Madden's The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare and of Elizabethan Sport. Winter's Shakespeare on the Stage.
A specimen of the importance of this publication may be given in the title of the first secret. Character of an unworthy physician. Holinshed affirms that the corpse of Henry the Sixth bled as it was carrying for interment; and Sir Kenelm Digby so firmly believed in the truth of the report, that he has endeavoured to explain the reason. It is remarked by Mr. Goddard's "Mastif Whelp." Satires. 4to.
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