Chapter 12
The Shapes of History
D. R. Woolf,
D. R. Woolf
Search for more papers by this authorD. R. Woolf,
D. R. Woolf
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David Scott Kastan
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 12 July 2012
Summary
These days we seem to be surrounded by history. Films treat historical subjects from imperial Rome to medieval Scotland to Vietnam; historical fiction remains popular in the pulp supermarket trade; film-makers churn out elaborate documentaries and dramatizations; and cable TV develops speciality channels. Museums, the major public forum for the eXhibit of the physical remains of the past, remain enormously popular if chronically underfunded institutions. If one really gets ambitious to learn more about a particular event, there are always the public libraries and general interest bookstores, where works on military history and biography are easily available, and the newest addition to the pond of historical information, the Internet. If Shakespeare had written his plays today, they might well be lost amid the hundreds of titles available, and would of course run afoul of academic critics and amateur history buffs, who could easily point out the many howlers' in his representation of particular events or people.
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