Black-adder

Author: Richard Curtis
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140296082
Category : Black Adder (Television program)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A collection of scripts from the television series as well as miscellaneous items such as Baldrick's family tree and an index of Blackadder's finest insults.

The True History of the Blackadder

Author: J. F. Roberts
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409051714
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
___________________ They had a cunning plan. A few decades ago, three young grads from England's greatest universities - Oxford, Cambridge, and Hull (actually, Manchester) - came up with a historical comedy series. Few thought it would live long in the memory. Today, Blackadder is a timeless comic masterpiece, and its stars have gone on to glittering careers. The True History of the Black Adder is the first ever history of one of Britain's greatest and most unique sitcoms, from its medieval beginnings to its legendary tragic finale. Informed by exclusive - and hilarious - interviews with essential figures like Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed and many more, this the definitive account of how a British institution came to be, as well as a fascinating look into how this classic comedy was almost very different - and a compendium of brilliantly funny anecdotes from a team of Britain's most celebrated comedians. British history is a patchwork of questionable stories, constantly rewritten, re-evaluated and ridiculed; final editorial control has always belonged to the winners. And nobody likes winners... At last, Blackadder enthusiasts can now uncover THE cunning plan, in all its hideous hilarity.

The Raven's Heart

Author: Jesse Blackadder
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0732291887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22

Book Description
"The Raven's Heart" is a breathtaking epic set during the disastrous reign of Mary Queen of Scots.

Chasing the Light

Author: Jesse Blackadder
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1743097824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 489

Book Description
A fictional recounting of the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, and her extraordinary fight to get there. A fictional recounting of the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, and her extraordinary fight to get there. It's the early 1930s. Antarctic open-sea whaling is booming and a territorial race for the mysterious continent between Norwegian and British-Australian interests is in full swing. Aboard a ship setting sail from Cape town carrying the Norwegian whaling magnate Lars Christensen are three women: Lillemor Rachlew, who tricked her way on to the ship and will stop at nothing to be the first woman to land on Antarctica; Mathilde Wegger, a grieving widow who's been forced to join the trip by her calculating parents-in-law; and Lars's wife, Ingrid Christensen, who has longed to travel to Antarctica since she was a girl and has made a daunting bargain with Lars to convince him to take her. Loyalties shift and melt and conflicts increase as they pass through the Southern Ocean and reach the whaling grounds. None of the women is prepared for the reality of meeting the whaling fleet and experiencing firsthand the brutality of the icy world. As they head for the continent itself, the race is on for the first woman to land on Antarctica. None of them expect the outcome and none of them know how they will be changed by their arrival. Based on the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, Jesse Blackadder has captured the drama, danger and magnetic pull of exploring uncharted places in our world and our minds.

Translating Humour

Author: Jeroen Vandaele
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113496644X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
It is all too often assumed that humour is the very effect of a text. But humour is not a perlocutionary effect in its own right, nor is laughter. The humour of a text may be as general a characteristic as a serious text's seriousness. Like serious texts, humorous texts have many different purposes and effects. They can be subdivided into specific subgenres, with their own perlocutionary effects, their own types of laughter (or even other reactions). Translation scholars need to be able to distinguish between various kinds of humour (or humorous effect) when comparing source and target texts, especially since the notion of "effect" pops up so frequently in the evaluation of humorous texts and their translations. In this special issue of The Translator, an attempt is made to delineate types of humorous effect, through careful linguistic and cultural analyses of specific examples and/or the introduction of new analytical tools. For a translator, who is both a receiver of the source text and sender of the target text, such analyses and tools may prove useful in grasping and pinning down the perlocutionary effect of a source text and devising strategies for producing comparable effects in the target text. For a translation scholar, who is a receiver of both source and target texts, the contributions in this issue will hopefully provide an analytical framework for the comparison of source and target perlocutionary effects.

Abe-Cur

Author: James MacVeigh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 804

Book Description

The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-18

Author: Stephen Badsey
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441112960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
In this collection of essays of incomparable scholarship, Stephen Badsey explores in individual detail how the British Army fought in the First World War, how politics and strategy affected its battles and the decisions of senior commanders such as Douglas Haig, and how these issues were intimately intertwined with the mass media portrayal of the Army to itself and to the British people. Informative, provocative, and often entertaining, based on more than a quarter-century of research, these essays on the British Army in the First World War range through topics from a trench raid to modern television comedy. As a contribution to progressive military history, The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-1918 proves that the way the British Army fought and its portrayal through the media cannot be separated. It is one of a growing number of studies which show that, far from being in opposition to each other, cultural history and the history of battle must be combined for the First World War to be properly understood. For more information visit Stephen Badsey's website www.stephenbadsey.com .

Duns - Burgh on the Merse

Author: James Denham
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326559087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
The history of Duns, Berwickshire from the beginning including the churches, great houses, notable people. We also visit the villages of Greenlaw, Gavinton, Polwarth, Swinton, Simprim, Longformacus, Ellemford, Cranshaws, Abbey St.Bathans, Allanton, Allanbank, Broomdykes, Edrom, Fogo, Whitsome, Hilton, Chirnsidebridge and Chirnside, Bonkyl, Preston, Lintla

Second Series. Cases Decided in the Court of Session from Nov. 13, 1838 ... (to July 19, 1862;-vol. 10-12; in the Court of Session, Teind Court and Court of Exchequer, from July 20, 1848:-vol. 13-24; in the Court of Session, Teind Court, Court of Exchequer and House of Lords, from Nov. 13, 1850). Reported Vol. 1-3 by Alexander Dunlop and Others; Vol. 4-8, by J. M. Bell and Others; Vol. 9, 10, by John Murray and Others; Vol. 11, 12, by George Young and Others; Vol. 13-15, by H. L. Tennent and Others; Vol. 16-19, by Patrick Fraser and Others; Vol. 20-23, by J. S. Milne and Others; Vol. 24, by Norman Macpherson and Others , Etc

Author: Scotland. Court of Session
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1576

Book Description

Elizabeth Blackadder

Author: Philip Long
Publisher: Gallery of Scotland Editions
ISBN: 9781906270391
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
-One of Scotland's best loved painters -First woman artist to be elected to both the Royal Academy and Royal Scottish Academy -Includes an introduction by John Leighton, the Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland This extensively illustrated book is devoted to the art of Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, one of Scotland's best loved painters. Blackadder's art explores a diverse range of subjects through many mediums. The artist draws on experiences of foreign travel, as well as plant forms and animals closer to home, to produce highly original works that appear to breathe with their own life. Her deeply analytical eye allows her to see the underlying structure, design and color harmony in both the exotic and the everyday. This book tells the fascinating story of her career, from her early days as a student in Edinburgh, and her friendships with Scottish painters William Gillies, William MacTaggart and Anne Redpath, to her very recent work.