Tom Brown’s Schooldays, a novel by Thomas Hughes, was released in 1857. The narrative centers on the challenges and experiences of a young student attending a public school in England.

Rattigan’s play, The Deep Blue Sea, premiered in 1963. It is a thriller that revolves around a love triangle, similar to the one depicted in The Browning Version.

Cecily, a novel by Isabelle Holland, was published in 1967. The story highlights a proud young teacher at a British girls’ school whose lack of empathy towards a misfit student leads to a disaster in her own romantic life.

Written in the fifth or sixth century B.C., Agamemnon is a play by Aeschylus. It deals with a deceitful wife, her lover, and her tormented husband.

Vintage Stuff, a novel by Tom Sharpe, was published in 1982. It narrates the adventures of some public school boys and their teachers during a vacation in France.