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  • Published: 2 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780140280357
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $48.00

Blackadder

The Whole Damn Dynasty



The twenty-sixth anniversary commemorative edition of the complete Blackadder scripts

Twenty-six years ago, Edmund Blackadder made his first appearance on our screens. Comedy has never been the same since (nor indeed has history).

Gathered here - in this twenty-sixth anniversary commemorative edition - are the complete scripts of Blackadder's adventures and, mostly, misadventures. Every word, every lie, every cunning plan and cock-up.

From medieval nastiness, through Elizabethan and Regency glory, to the mud and sautéed rats of the First World War, Blackadder and his oafish underling Baldrick can be most definitely blamed for ruining England's reputation as a country with a great history.

This historical record has been set down by Mr Richard Curtis, Mr Ben Elton, Mr Rowan Atkinson and Mr John Lloyd.

  • Published: 2 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780140280357
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $48.00

About the authors

Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis is a British screenwriter, actor, film director and music producer. Among his screenwriting credits are Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually, whilst for television he created and wrote Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley. He created the first Black Adder series with Rowan Atkinson, before going on to write subsequent series with Ben Elton.

Ben Elton

Ben Elton’s multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He has written fifteen major bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, Two Brothers and Time and Time Again, three West End plays and three musicals, including global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written and directed two feature films, Maybe Baby and Three Summers.

He is married and has three children.

John Lloyd

John Lloyd, CBE is a British television producer and writer best known for his work on such comedy television programmes as Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder and QI.He is currently the presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity, a spin-off of QI.

Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson, CBE is a comedian and actor, well known for his roles in Blackadder and Mr Bean. His first starring role was in the BBC radio comedy series The Atkinson People, which he co-wrote with Richard Curtis. He subsequently starred in Not the Nine O'Clock News, which launched his career as well as those of his co-stars Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones and Pamela Stephenson. Other television credits include playing the title role in ITV's Maigret, while among his film credits are Bean and Johnny English.