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Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Characters
AEH Housman
Genders
  • Female: 0
  • Male: 2
Style
Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
Oxford University, London, Victorian Era
Act/Scene
Act One

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AEH: What are you doing here, one may ask?

Housman: Classics, sir. I’m studying for Greats.

AEH: Are you? I did Greats, too.

[... … …]

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AEH: The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don’t like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical with ours.

Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love, Grove Press, 1997, pp. 30-36.

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Read a review of The Invention of Love by The New Yorker, including a brief biography of A.E. Housman: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/02/19/lost-horizon

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