The History Boys: The Film - Softcover

Alan Bennett; Nicholas Hytner (introduction)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865479712 ISBN 13: 9780865479715

Publisher: North Point Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures, The History Boys: The Film contains Alan Bennett's diary of the filming, the shooting script, and an introduction by director Nicholas Hytner, as well as an extensive plate section that includes a look behind the scenes and stills from the film. An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. In The History Boys, Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life. In doing so, he raises not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today.

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Review:

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)

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Point Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0865479712
• ISBN 13: 9780865479715
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 107