Blackadder and situational comedy: midpoint summary
Midpoint summary before moving towards a case study of an episode from Blackadder Goes Forth.
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Blackadder II
How the situation and location are linked in situational comedy
As the period changes between seasons of Blackadder, the locations are carefully used to strengthen the comedy.
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The importance of location in situational comedy
Moving into production of Blackadder II, producers had to think carefully about where cameras would be located on set.
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The structure of situational comedy
How do different scholars define the term Situational Comedy?
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The Comic Fool and Butt of the Joke
Examining Orinn Klapp’s 1949 essay The Fool as a Social Type in relation to Blackadder.
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