but i really loved this. Set in a grammar school in Sheffield in the 1980s, The History Boys follows the path of eight sixth form pupils as they prepare to take their entrance exams to Oxford and Cambridge Universities (Oxbridge). A group of eight teenage boys are in their final year of school, preparing to take scholarship examinations for university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A class of likely lads, caught in a clash of educational styles as they prepare to apply to Oxford or Cambridge, find their loyalties as well as their intellects tested.

A wonderful, witty play. there were a couple of scenes in the play that weren't in the film and vice versa and the ending was slightly different. 01:29 Can you see that?HECTOR: Uncoffined is a typical Hardy usage. Mild spoilers ahead, but I don't think knowing will make much of a difference on your reading experience of this semi-niche play.“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. Published Its clever and plays out as fantastic inside joke among the boys.Subjunctive history, discussing that gets five star alone. I didn't find it that funny but i'm looking forward to studying this oneI love reading plays.

A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool.Larkin, a poet.

The boys are all trying to get into Oxford and Cambridge. It’s a compound adjective, formed by putting “un” in front of the noun or verb, of course. The play is a great read for many reasons and all of them deeply resonated with me. Too many boys. Mild spoilers ahead, but I don't think knowing will make much of a difference on your reading experience of this semi-niche play.I credit Ana for introducing me to this because I watched the movie on a whim one because I'd seen her posting about it and fell In Love (and also because I rarely get a chance to use that function). A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool.An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. Too much talking uninteresting stuff. 00:07 there were a couple of scenes in the play that weren't in the film and vice versa and the ending was slightly different.this is one of my favourite films and so i was wary when i bought the play. In The History Boys, Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boys life.

i know this is the original text and the film came after but it's the film i've seen so many times and i didn't know what differences there would be. And this pile of self-consciously Teddibly Intellectual Claptrap won the Tony for Best Play over Martin McDonagh's magnificent LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE. Too casual on serious topics. i can't imagine what that would be like.

very glad i read this. because i am an intellectual snob, and because i am a sucker for british accents, and because i LOVE history, and because i went to an all-girls school that decidedly wanted to get everyone into the ivies, i must admit i'm a little bit of a biased reader.

by Faber Faber I wonder if this play would translate to other countries. Susan Orlean, the author of The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession and staff writer for The New Yorker, is back on bookshelves th...An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university.

Absolutely joyful, exuberant and bittersweet at the same time, the examination of their relationships with their tutors and each Alan Bennett's fascinating play (which was made into a well-received motion picture starring the original cast from the West End and Tony Award-winning Broadway stage productions) about a group of English high school students studying for their Oxbridge entrance examinations, and how they are tutored by two different professors who possess contrasting teaching styles. Can you see that?this is one of my favourite films and so i was wary when i bought the play. 00:25 Though Headmaster doesn't appreciate his poetry he name drops him at every available moment to make himself appear more intelligent than he is.Bennett at his best: witty, erudite and controversial.Bennett at his best: witty, erudite and controversial.Utterly useless play.

A very nice encounter with Mr Alan Bennett.

We’d love your help. I liked the underlying messages about teaching and politics and the final message at the end.

Despite the fact that I’ve read a few Alan Bennett books before, this one is the first of his plays. Gave up.Alan Bennett's dialogues have layers. This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer The History Boys follows two teachers and a group of students at an all boys grammar school in England in the 1980s. Their teachers have different ideas about the role of education which seem competitive but are complementary. It's just one fucking thing after another” I have to get myself a copy of the book and read it at my own pace. One of his pupils, Timms, quotes Auden and uses it outside the context to explain Hector's behavior to Irwin. The occasional "witty" line, but the whole thing felt very self-serving, self-congratulatory, and mechanical. I'm looking forward to seeing the film as well.The play is a great read for many reasons and all of them deeply resonated with me. Utterly useless play. I have a feeling "Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you see that literature is actually about losers. Plays, essays, films, or novels that are set in school usually evokes an unpleasant feeling for me, (To Sir With Love being an exception.

"History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men."

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