The History Boys - Softcover

Bennett, Alan

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571316778 ISBN 13: 9780571316779

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2014

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An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool.

In Alan Bennett's classic play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.

The History Boys premi�red at the National in May 2004.

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Brilliantly funny, with lines that we will, I hope, be quoting for years to come and several show-stopping vignettes. Bennett is still naughty, impish, endlessly ironic. But by the end tears are as near as laughter. The History Boys is moving, disquieting: one follows it with a heart brimful.... This is Bennett's first play this millennium, and it more than repays the wait; I think it his finest work in decades., Financial Times

One of our most considerable as well as one of our most enjoyable playwrights., Times Literary Supplement

What makes Bennett remarkable is a linguistic spark, an unerring sense for the right word., Spectator

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The History Boys by Alan Bennett is a hilarious drama that follows an unruly bunch of bright, funny boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university.

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