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The History Boys: The Film
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The History Boys: The Film Paperback - 2006

by Alan Bennett; Nicholas Hytner

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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 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 premiered at the National in May 2004.

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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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  • Title The History Boys: The Film
  • Author Alan Bennett; Nicholas Hytner
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 107
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Faber & Faber, New York
  • Publication date November 14, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780865479715 / 0865479712
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.56 x 0.46 in (20.83 x 14.12 x 1.17 cm)
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006933956
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.437

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