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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 Bruffs guide include:- detailed analyses of character- theme and structure;- a clear introduction to the context of the play and its author;- 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 hes a fool.In Alan Bennetts 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....