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”I feel like a pelican. Everywhere I look I have this huge bill in front of me”

”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. 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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”I feel like a pelican. Everywhere I look I have this huge bill in front of me”

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  1. ”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 FUN

  2. 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 FUN

  3. Rhetoric The art of persuading an audience We agree and disagree with other people Group identification: Right vs wrong FUN

  4. 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? FUN

  5. 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) FUN

  6. The Black Adder (1983): 1485 (the end of the British Middle Ages) FUN

  7. Blackadder II (1986): 1558–1603 (The Elizabethan Age) FUN

  8. Blackadder the Third (1987): late 18th and early 19th centuries - the Regency FUN

  9. Blackadder Goes Forth (1989): 1917 – The Great War FUN

  10. Development • I II III IV • Stupid Lord Royal Army • prince butler capt. • more more money survival • power power FUN

  11. Chiasmus (X) • High social status High intelligence • Low intelligence Low social status • I II III IV FUN

  12. Blackadder theThird • Georgian era (1714-1811) • Regency (1811-1820 (1837) • Late 18th and early 19th centuries • Enlightenment and Romanticism FUN

  13. The Dandy FUN

  14. Exoticism: The Royal Pavillon, Brighton (1803-1822) FUN

  15. Exoticism: The Royal Pavillon, Brighton (1803-1822) FUN

  16. 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 FUN

  17. Blackadder the Third • Jane Austen (1775-1817) • Sense and Sensibility (1811) • Pride and Prejudice (1813) FUN

  18. 1980 1995 BBC adaptations of P&P FUN

  19. 1981 2008 BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility FUN

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