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START: Shall I tell you what is wrong wi...

Headmaster (Felix)

The History Boys

Alan Bennett

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 2
Time & Place
Cutler's Grammar School, Sheffield, England, 1980s
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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START: Shall I tell you what is wrong with Hector as a teacher? It isn’t that he doesn’t produce results. He does.

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END: And I was so pleased on the night Mrs Armstrong told me she was startled to find she was the object of unaccustomed sexual interference herself. That is a measure of how pleased I was, though I shan’t say that to the inspectors.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Alan Bennett, The History Boys, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011, pp. 90-1.

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