“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set d...”
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<p><b>"A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." —<i>The Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br> In <i>The History Boys</i>, Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life. In doing so, he raises—with gentle wit and pitch-perfect command of character—not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today.<br><br> 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.<br><br> Winner of six Tony Awards, <i>The History Boys </i>was also made into a movie of the same name in 2006.</p>
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set d...”
“How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another”
“Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.”