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Hector has been called into the headmaster’s office. He has been
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START: HEADMASTER You teach behind locked doors.
HECTOR On occasion.
HEADMASTER Why is that?
[... …]
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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