Alan Bennett: The History Boys
The History Boys
Buch
- A Play
- Faber And Faber Ltd., 06/2004
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780571224647
- Bestellnummer: 7102565
- Umfang: 109 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2004
- Gewicht: 116 g
- Maße: 198 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 10 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.6.2004
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
A 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. This work provokes questions about history and how you teach it; and about education and its purpose.Klappentext
"A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." -The Daily TelegraphIn 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.