- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this scene, a student named Rudge has been called before his teachers, including Irwin and Mrs. Lintott, to go through a mock admissions interview. Rudge is asked how he defines history--in response he characterizes it as "one fucking thing after another."
The irony of the scene is that Rudge's answer, while blunt and inappropriate for an Oxford admissions interview, is rather accurate. Bennett seems to think of history as a collection of random, meaningless, and basically unpredictable facts, which have to be twisted and distorted into an essay or a "story." In another sense, the passage suggests the way…