The editors deserve to be congratulated on an elegant and provocative collection which in its multi-vocality suggests numerous directions for future research.
Jason Scott-Warren, Notes and Queries
The Handbook is an extremely valuable aid to the fruitful exploration of the varieties of Elizabethan thought and experience.
C. S. L. Davies, English Historical Review
this collection is of the first importance for understanding Elizabethan history and historiography in a very wide range of senses, and as Shakespeare and his collaborators relied heavily on the Chronicles for texts beyond the history plays, readers should take the time to make full use of this excellent essay collection.
Year's Work in English Studies
This book is a major boon for Shakespeare specialists, who should have it in their institutional library, if not on their personal bookshelf.
John D. Cox, Shakespeare Quarterly
The Oxford Handbook of Holinshedâs Chronicles is a fascinating collection of essays. ... It will be a vital reference work for scholars for years to come and in particular for those writing on Elizabethan literature and drama.
Thomas Betteridge, Renaissance Quarterly
This is a superb collection of essays ... this excellent work bridges digital humanities with printed results, creating a volume useful for scholars and students in a multiplicity of early modern fields of study.
Carole Levin and Andrea Nichols, Sixteenth Century Journal
a major step forward ... The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles is a major achievement and will be welcomed by early modern scholars of all stripes.
Christopher Highley, Huntington Library Quarterly
What editors Paulina Kewes, Ian W. Archer, and Felicity Heal have assembled in the Handbook is a thorough overview of the competing concerns that surround the Chronicles ... At almost eight hundred pages long, the Handbook threatens, upon first appearance, to be an unwieldy account of the Chronicles; and yet, as the reader begins "actively to engage with the text," it becomes three-dimensional in the composite perspective formed through the many varied angles from which the Chronicles are viewed.
William J. Humphries, The Spenser Review