Overview
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. Highlights of Andrew Bruff's
guide include: detailed analyses of character, theme and structure; a
clear introduction to the context of the play and its author; and key
quotations and activities both for the student working alone and in the
classroom. 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 award-winning and hugely popular play, staffroom rivalry and
the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and
how you teach it, about education and its purpose.