Quaint Honor
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Written byRoger Gellert
Date premiered15 July 1958
Original languageEnglish
| Quaint Honour | |
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| Written by | Roger Gellert |
| Date premiered | 15 July 1958 |
| Original language | English |
Quaint Honour is a 1958 play by Roger Gellert whose subject is homosexuality in a school for young men.
Set in a boy's boarding school in the late 1950s where homosexuality in the UK is illegal the play explores relationships, both platonic and sexual, between the students. When one of the pupils Tully accepts a challenge to seduce the younger student Hamilton, the ensuing affair results in both positive and negative repercussions. Hamilton gains confidence and certainty in his identity from the relationship whilst Tully struggles between guilt and genuine affection that eventually leads to his expulsion.[1]
