This season of the British series Blackadder is set in the Regency period, but as there is some anachronism stew, you can find references to many events that happened before: Samuel Johnson appears in one episode, played by Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid), trying to finish his dictionary, actors and terrible acting at that time, even George III makes an estellar appeareance asking his son to marry a bush in a very thick German accent. And events that happened later; the French Revolution, Byron, Shelley and Coleridge in a tavern, all emo because they're dying, references to Jane Austen, and the popular theory that she was actually a red bearded man from Yorkshire (!).
But I'm recomending it too because is so funny! Edmund Blackadder is played by Rowan Atkinson as an inteligent, dark and manipulative hero-villain, his master the prince is played by Hugh Laurie as a dim-witted, snotty royal brat:
... not what we're used to from these two, eh? Watch it, it really makes you learn while you laugh.
I really don´t think you could have chosen a better topic to start a Blog. Though probably not too well known by the vast majority of today´s youth, Blackadder was a perfect work of art in every single way. It represents so much of Britain and it´s ways without outwardly telling the unwilling audience... We can find British humour in it´s every style. I personally think it outrageously PERFECT!
ReplyDeleteThough what really does make me write this comment is how well a young Spanish girl has understood it all...
CONGRATULATIONS!!