User:Philoyonder/The History Boys (Cultural References)

Authors
Franz Kafka (1883) – (1924)

mentioned p87 (Crowther)

The Trial(1925) - mentioned p30 (Hector)

George Orwell name dropped pp34, 73

Virginia Wolfe mentioned p96

Composers

 * Mozart – mentioned p83
 * Don Giovanni – mentioned p30
 * Tippet – mentioned p83
 * Bruckner - mentioned p83

Artists

 * Rembrandt – name dropped p26,35
 * Francis Bacon - name dropped p35
 * Turner - name dropped p36
 * Ingress - name dropped p36
 * Piero della Francesca - name dropped p46
 * Baptism – alluded to p46
 * Michelangelo - mentioned p53
 * Van Gogh – mentioned p69
 * Wilfred Pickles – quoted p104

Philosophers

 * Blaise Pascal
 * Les Pensees – quoted in English p37
 * Frederick Nietchze – mentioned p47
 * Plato – mentioned p53
 * Wittgenstein – name dropped p72, 84
 * Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus- quoted p71, 84
 * Jean-Paul Satre – mentioned p86, 87

Actors

 * Paul Henreid - mentioned p32
 * Betty Davis - mentioned p32
 * James Mason - mentioned p67
 * Anne Todd - mentioned p67

Films

 * Now Voyager – mentioned, performed pp31-32
 * The Carry On Films – name dropped, mentioned p33
 * Brief Encounter – mentioned, performed p40, mentioned p93
 * The Seventh Veil - performed p66, mentioned p67
 * Svengali – mentioned p66
 * Sporting Life- mentioned p86

Written Works

 * The Bible
 * Deuteronomy 30:19 - quoted p6
 * Revelations 2:20 – quoted p30
 * The Anglican Book of Common Prayer, mentioned pp7,37
 * chapter title: “Hymns Ancient and Modern” -name dropped p7
 * Tudor Economic Documents Vol 2, Tawney & Power – name dropped p21
 * Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger – name dropped p23
 * Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman –name dropped, quoted p32
 * The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan, name dropped p37
 * Pigeon Fanciers Gazette, name dropped p37
 * The Magnet: Billy Bunter
 * Mr Quelch (character) – mentioned p58
 * The Statesman, mentioned p75
 * The Wind in the Willows – quoted p94
 * The Lord of the Rings – mentioned p96
 * The Spectator – mentioned p102

Words/Language
adapted bloody => fucking p85
 * Renaissance man p9
 * Otiose p5
 * The Conditional pp12, 13
 * The Subjunctive pp12, 13, 14, 64, 90, 91
 * Hecatombs p23
 * The Person from Porlock- mentioned pp30, 31
 * Forces of Progress p 36
 * Spectre of Modernity p36
 * The Presence p51
 * Meretricious p60, 75
 * Apotheosis p63
 * Tout comprendre est tout pardoner p74
 * Disingenuous p75
 * Herbert Butterfield
 * Subjunctive History p90
 * Gernunds p100

Opening scene of boys and Hector in French p4 Scene performed in French p12-16
 * The French language –

Music

 * Édith Piaf
 * L'accordéoniste - Sung p12
 * (version of) ‘La Vie en Rose’- played on piano p13
 * Pal Joey - Lorenz Hart
 * Betwitched – Sung p29
 * Rachmaninov
 * Second Piano Concerto – played on piano p40
 * Isaac Watts
 * When I survey the Wondrous Cross – sung p44
 * Elvis Presley – name dropped p46
 * Beethoven
 * Piano Sonata No. 8 – Pathétique – played on piano p66
 * Grieg
 * Grieg’s Piano Concerto – mentioned p66
 * George Formby – name dropped p67
 * When I’m cleaning windows – mentioned p67
 * Gracie fields – name dropped p67, 79, mentioned p94, 104
 * Sing as we go- performed p79
 * Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye – performed p92
 * Barbara Streisand – name dropped p79
 * Richard Rogers – mentioned p82
 * Mozart – mention p83
 * Tippet – mention p83
 * Pet Shop Boys
 * It’s a Sin –performed p104
 * Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon
 * Bye Bye, Blackbird - performed p106

Architects

 * Richard Rogers - mentioned p82
 * Wren-Hawksmoor - mentioned p82

Historians

 * Namier – name dropped p93

Historic Events and People

 * The Annunciation – mentioned p95
 * (St.) Aelred of Rievaulx – mentioned p59
 * The Murder of Thomas Beckett – mentioned p31
 * Monasticism – mentioned p58-59
 * The dissolution of the Monasteries – mentioned p63, 74, 78
 * The Reformation 16th Century – mentioned p19
 * Christ’s prepuce – mentioned/briefly discussed p19
 * Elizabeth I – mentioned p83
 * The Renaissance – mentioned p53
 * The British Empire – mentioned p 80
 * The Zulu Wars – mentioned p55
 * The Boer War– mentioned p55
 * WWI mentioned p15,24
 * (Third likely) Battle of Ypres WWI – mentioned/short re-enactment p15
 * Treaty of Versailles - mentioned p24, 81, alluded to p85
 * Sir Douglas Haig – named dropped p24
 * Hitler – name dropped p24,25
 * The Cenotaph – mentioned p25
 * The Last Post – mentioned p25
 * Passchendaele – mentioned p25, used in ‘Fiona Western-Front” metaphor p28
 * The Somme - mentioned p25
 * The Unknown Soldier – mentioned p25
 * The Hun (German Army) - mentioned p28
 * The Western Front - mentioned p81
 * The Armistice - mentioned p81
 * The Weimar Republic - mentioned p24, 81
 * WWII – mentioned p70, 72
 * Hitler - mentioned p72
 * Stalin – mentioned p98
 * Nazis - mentioned p73
 * The Holocaust –discussed p70-74, mentioned p 78, 79, 96
 * Auschwitz – name dropped p71
 * Dachau - name dropped p71
 * Chamberlain – mentioned p90
 * Chamberlain resigning as Prime Minister – mentioned p90
 * Churchill – mentioned p90
 * Lord Halifax – mentioned p90
 * Hitler’s Invasion of Poland – mentioned p89
 * Hitler’s turning on Russia – mentioned p90
 * Alamenin – mentioned p 90
 * Montgomery - mentioned p 90
 * General Gott - mentioned p 90
 * Pearl Harbour –mentioned p35
 * President F.D.Roosevelt name dropped p35
 * Dunkirk – mentioned p89
 * The British National Front – mentioned p34
 * Hollywood – mentioned p35, 58
 * Stalin – name dropped p35, 58
 * Henry VIII – name dropped pp35, 58, 62, mentioned p74
 * Margaret Thatcher – name dropped p35, 58
 * Rievaulx Abbey – setting p58-63, mentioned p 58
 * Roche Abbey – mentioned p102