The History Boys (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Lord Manleigh’s request to change the title of The History Boys Saturday, November 14 2009.

Lord Manleigh changed the title of The History Boys Friday, November 13 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of The History Boys Saturday, August 1 2009.

• “A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny.” — The Daily Telegraph   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—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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The History Boys Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Alan Bennett: (Primary Author)