Latin! or Tobacco and Boys
Latin! or Tobacco and Boys is a play by Stephen Fry, written in 1979. It was first performed at 'The Playroom', an L-shaped space in St Edwards Passage that belonged to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. It is about life at the fictional Chartham Park Preparatory School For Boys, a prep school in England, and ends up in Morocco, via a homosexual relationship between a teacher and a 13-year-old student. The title derives from Christopher Marlowe's reported comment that "All they that love not Tobacco and Boys are fools".
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Latin! or Tobacco and Boys
Latin! or Tobacco and Boys is a play by Stephen Fry, written in 1979. It was first performed at 'The Playroom', an L-shaped space in St Edwards Passage that belonged to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. It is about life at the fictional Chartham Park Preparatory School For Boys, a prep school in England, and ends up in Morocco, via a homosexual relationship between a teacher and a 13-year-old student. The title derives from Christopher Marlowe's reported comment that "All they that love not Tobacco and Boys are fools".
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Chartham Park Preparatory School For Boys
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pederastic and sado-masochisitic sexuality in a boys' school
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