The History Boys

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.

Informationen zum Autor Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic. He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for The Madness of King George , and the film of his screenplay of The Lady in the Van starred Dame Maggie Smith. His work for the stage includes Forty Years On , an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, The Habit of Art and People. His collections of prose are Writing Home , Untold Stories ( PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography), Keeping On Keeping On and House Arrest . His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader, Smut: Two Unseemly Stories and Two Besides . Klappentext "A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." - The Daily Telegraph 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-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. 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. Winner of six Tony Awards, The History Boys was also made into a movie of the same name in 2006. Vorwort Alan Bennett's beloved, best-known play, elegantly rejacketed in Faber Drama's new series design. Zusammenfassung Alan Bennett's beloved, best-known play, with a beautiful typographic cover. The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. As an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys pursue sex, sport and a place at university, adolescent anarchy and staffroom rivalry provoke insistent questions about history and education. The History Boys premiered at the National Theatre, London, 2004, winning Evening Standard , Critics' Circle, Olivier and South Bank Awards. On Broadway, it received numerous awards, including six Tonys. ...

Vorwort
Alan Bennett's beloved, best-known play, elegantly rejacketed in Faber Drama's new series design.

Autorentext
Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic. He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for The Madness of King George, and the film of his screenplay of The Lady in the Van starred Dame Maggie Smith. His work for the stage includes Forty Years On, an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, The Habit of Art and People. His collections of prose are Writing Home, *Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography), *Keeping On Keeping On and House Arrest. His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader, Smut: Two Unseemly Stories and Two Besides.

Klappentext

"A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." -The Daily Telegraph

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-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.

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.

Winner of six Tony Awards, The History Boys was also made into a movie of the same name in 2006.

Zusammenfassung

Alan Bennett's beloved, best-known play, with a beautiful typographic cover.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead.

As an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys pursue sex, sport and a place at university, adolescent anarchy and staffroom rivalry provoke insistent questions about history and education.

The History Boys premiered at the National Theatre, London, 2004, winning Evening Standard, Critics' Circle, Olivier and South Bank Awards. On Broadway, it received numerous awards, including six Tonys.