David Lowenthal

Shakespeare’s Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays analyzes eleven of Shakespeare’s most famous plays offering an in-depth exploration of the ways in which each play demonstrates his political thought and his poetic genius. Meer

The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. Meer

Heritage has burgeoned over the past quarter of a century from a small élite preoccupation into a major popular crusade. Everything from Disneyland to the Holocaust Museum, from the Balkan wars to the Northern Irish troubles, from Elvis memorabilia to the Elgin Marbles bears the marks of the cult of heritage. Meer

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