In Alan Bennett's new 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 premièred at the National in May 2004.
In The History Boys, Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life.
Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of The History Boys with a comprehensive study guide.
In Alan Bennett's new 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 premiegrave;red at the National in May 2004.
IRWIN Posner came to see me yesterday. He has a problem. MRS LINTOTT No nickname, but at least you get their problems. I seldom do. INT. IRWIN'S CLASSROOM. DAY. Posner and Irwin are alone in the classroom. POSNER Sir, I think I may be ...
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...
A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool.In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and ...
Performed by: Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Frances De La Tour, James Corden, Sacha Dhawan.Set in the 1980s in a grey, grim northern Grammar school, a select number of very bright boys are desperately trying to pass the ...
Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible and stimulating new educational edition: - includes detailed analyses of character, theme and structure; - looks at the context of the play and its author; ...