tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post5545955394548609285..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Enough already with the edginessHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-14125574852170046232012-01-22T18:21:33.808+00:002012-01-22T18:21:33.808+00:00Yes, AKM, that is worse. I quite agree. Though, to...Yes, AKM, that is worse. I quite agree. Though, to some extent, Blackadder did not invent any historical opinions, merely repeated the best known misconceptions, such as the ones about the First World War.Helennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-1993006767687470892012-01-22T17:27:57.565+00:002012-01-22T17:27:57.565+00:00It could be worse, most of my generation learnt th...It could be worse, most of my generation learnt their history from Blackadder!AKMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-14556890932848811312012-01-22T16:51:05.689+00:002012-01-22T16:51:05.689+00:00Goodness, I hope they don't learn their histor...Goodness, I hope they don't learn their history from Shakespeare. ;) Setting aside the factual misrepresentation (he was a Tudor propagandist, after all) the analysis of power and various relationships cannot be bettered.Helennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-31395466935737908992012-01-21T08:38:36.159+00:002012-01-21T08:38:36.159+00:00Actually Helen, I have only just seen The Reader a...Actually Helen, I have only just seen The Reader and thought it a good film - other than Fiennes lack of emotion, but I digress.<br /><br />I am with you in that the original version of anything is hard to better - yet there is always some smart arse willing to try..... Adherence to the original in film and television where Dickens, Shakespeare and other great writers are concerned might also teach children some history - something sorely lacking today.WitteringWitneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-28503186857529533332012-01-21T02:34:41.463+00:002012-01-21T02:34:41.463+00:00A couple of decades back, "Time" magazin...A couple of decades back, "Time" magazine practically swooned because a production of "Carmen" was updated to the Spanish Civil War.Bleeplessnoreply@blogger.com