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Hector has been called into the headmaster’s office. He has been caught groping one of the sixth form boys while giving them a lift home on his motorbike. The headmaster has been looking for an excuse to get rid of Hector for a while as he dislikes his eccentric nature and maverick teaching methods. Now that Hector has been disgraced, the headmaster is perversely pleased that he has a reason to dismiss him. Hector tries to explain his actions as he does not view them as dirty or wrong, but he
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START: HEADMASTER You teach behind locked doors.
HECTOR On occasion.
HEADMASTER Why is that?
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END: HEADMASTER F#%k the Renaissance. And f#%k literature and Plato and Michelangelo and Oscar Wilde and all the other shrunken violets you people line up. This is a school and it isn’t normal.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Alan Bennett, The History Boys, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011, pp. 74-77.
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