Format: DVD

Genre: Comedy

Location: Fi36b

Blackadder (1982)

Set in England at the end of the War of the Roses, we soon discover that the history we know is a Tudor fiction. Henry VII did not win the Battle of Bosworth Field; he lost, and though Richard III died in the battle, his nephew, King Richard IV (who was indeed not smothered while still a boy in the Tower of London), reigned for some years. The story focuses on Richard IV’s younger son, Prince Edmund, a sniveling coward who calls himself the ‘Black Adder.’ Assisted by his grungy servant and the moronic Lord Percy, Edmund plots his rise to greatness.