blackadder

Blackadder in the classroom

ben elton, blackadder, First World War, michael gove, Oxbridge, teaching ww1, WW1

Par TV adaptations

What did you make of Michael Gove’s remark that Blackadder Goes Forth depicted the First World War as “a misbegotten shambles – a series of catastrophic mistakes perpetrated by an out-of-touch elite”? Self-evidently it was a catastrophe – as we speak...

Lire la suite