The History Boys - Brossura

Bennett, Alan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571316778 ISBN 13: 9780571316779

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2014

Riassunto

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 classic 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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Brilliantly funny, with lines that we will, I hope, be quoting for years to come and several show-stopping vignettes. Bennett is still naughty, impish, endlessly ironic. But by the end tears are as near as laughter. The History Boys is moving, disquieting: one follows it with a heart brimful.... This is Bennett's first play this millennium, and it more than repays the wait; I think it his finest work in decades. (Financial Times)

One of our most considerable as well as one of our most enjoyable playwrights. (Times Literary Supplement)

What makes Bennett remarkable is a linguistic spark, an unerring sense for the right word. (Spectator)

Descrizione del libro:

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.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0571316778
• ISBN 13: 9780571316779
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144