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Rudge is studying for the Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams and
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START: MRS LINTOTT Ah, Rudge.
RUDGE Miss.
MRS LINTOTT How are you all getting on with Mr Irwin?
[... …]
END: RUDGE He is. Mr Irwin says that if Orwell were alive today he’d be in the National Front.
MRS LINTOTT Dear me. What fun you must all have.
RUDGE It’s cutting-edge, miss. It really is.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Alan Bennett, The History Boys, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011, pp. 57-58.
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