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”I feel like a pelican. Everywhere I look I have this huge bill in front
of me”The Rhetoric of Comedy and the Comedy of Rhetoric: Black Adder
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Comedy
• The art of amusing an audience
• We laugh with someone, at someone else
• Group identification: we have a sense of humour they don’t
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Rhetoric
The art of persuading an audience
We agree and disagree with other people
Group identification: Right vs wrong
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Comedy/rhetoric
• The Rhetoric of Comedy: Does comedy try to persuade us? How? About what? Why?
• The Comedy of Rhetoric: Does rhetoric try to amuse us? How? Why?
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Blackadder Chronology• "(Blackadder Unaired Pilot)" (1982) • The Black Adder (1983) • Blackadder II (1986) • "The Shakespeare Sketch" (1989) • "Blackadder: The Cavalier Years" (1988) • Blackadder the Third (1987) • "1775" (US series pilot) (1992) • "Blackadder's Christmas Carol" (1988) • Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) • "Woman's Hour" Invasion (1988) • "Blackadder and the King's Birthday" (1998) • "Blackadder: Back & Forth" (2000) • "Blackadder: The Army Years" (2000) • "The Royal Gardener" (From the Queen's Jubilee) (2002) • "Jubilee Girl" (2002)
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The Black Adder (1983): 1485 (the end of the British Middle Ages)
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Blackadder II (1986): 1558–1603 (The Elizabethan Age)
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Blackadder the Third (1987): late 18th and early 19th centuries - the Regency
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Blackadder Goes Forth (1989): 1917 – The Great War
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Development
• I II III IV
• Stupid Lord Royal Army
• prince butler capt.
• more more moneysurvival
• power power
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Chiasmus (X)
• High social status High intelligence
• Low intelligence Low social status
• I II III IV
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Blackadder theThird
• Georgian era (1714-1811)
• Regency (1811-1820 (1837)
• Late 18th and early 19th centuries
• Enlightenment and Romanticism
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The Dandy
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Exoticism: The Royal Pavillon, Brighton (1803-1822)
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Exoticism: The Royal Pavillon, Brighton (1803-1822)
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Blackadder the Third
• Dish and Dishonesty: political representation• Ink and Incapability: linguistic representation• Nob and Nobility: existential representation• Sense and Senility: artistic representation• Amy and Amiability: existential representation• Duel and Duality: existential representation
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Blackadder the Third
• Jane Austen (1775-1817)
• Sense and Sensibility (1811)
• Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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BBC adaptations of P&P
• 1980 • 1995
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BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility
• 1981 • 2008