For 10 points, name this contemporary British playwright of The History Boys.
This author wrote a play in which a poet mistakes a journalist who has come to interview him for the male prostitute he has hired for the day; that poet is later visited by a composer with whom he had formerly collaborated on writing operas. In one play by this author, a man being strapped to a chair by a doctor declares "I am the King" only to be told "no, you are the patient." In another play by him, a teacher is forced to take early retirement when it is revealed that he fondles his students' genitals while giving them rides home on his motorcycle. One play by this man depicts a rehearsal of Caliban's Day, a play-within-a- play about a fictional encounter between Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden. This author of The Habit of Art and The Madness of George III wrote a play in which Posner and his crush Dakin are both students of the idealistic Mr. Hector and the cynical Mr. Irwin in Sheffield in the 1980s. For 10 points, name this contemporary British playwright of The History Boys.
This author wrote a play in which a poet mistakes a journalist who has come to interview him for the male prostitute he has hired for the day; that poet is later visited by a composer with whom he had formerly collaborated on writing operas.
Alan Bennett