Richard Iii's Presence In Black Adder; The Foretelling

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Roger M

 

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April 22, 2016

 

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University

 

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The writer does this by making continuous appropriations to Richard III through similar but humorously modified phrases, the inconsistent use of Elizabethan language, familiar names but with different characters and by depicting similar events. The story starts off with good king Richard III addressing his group of merry men by saying, "Now is the summer of our sweet content made overcast winter by these Tudor clouds...
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Hah, we say in disbelief, Richard a nice guy? We find that hard to take in because we listen and accept what Shakespeare tells us. The essence of The Foretelling's humour is derived from many such allusions to Richard-III. Richard is not the only victim of such characterisations. Innocent sweet little Edmund is portrayed as the evil traitor; the Black Adder ad is given a particularly daft hairstyle! The knight Richmond ? champion of goodness, servant of god ? is now the vile enemy, accused of rewriting history for his own sake...
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