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''House of Cards'' is a 1990 British political thriller television drama serial in four episodes, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was televised by the BBC from 18 November to 9 December 1990, to critical and popular acclaim. Andrew Davies adapted the story from a novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters. Neville Teller also dramatised Dobbs's novel for BBC World Service in 1996, and it had two television sequels (''To Play the King'' and ''The Final Cut''). The opening and closing theme music for those TV series is entitled "Francis Urquhart's March." ''House of Cards'' was ranked 84th in the British Film Institute list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes in 2000. In 2013, the serial and the Dobbs novel were the basis for a US adaptation set in Washington, D.C., commissioned and released by Netflix. ==Overview== The antihero of ''House of Cards'' is Francis Urquhart, a fictional Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, played by Ian Richardson. The plot follows his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Michael Dobbs did not envisage writing the second and third books, as Urquhart dies at the end of the first novel. The screenplay of the BBC's dramatisation of ''House of Cards'' differs from the book, and hence allows future series. Dobbs wrote two following books, ''To Play the King'' and ''The Final Cut'', which were televised in 1993 and 1995, respectively. ''House of Cards'' was said to draw from Shakespeare's plays ''Macbeth'' and ''Richard III'', both of which feature main characters who are corrupted by power and ambition. Richardson has a Shakespearean background and said he based his characterization of Urquhart on Shakespeare's portrayal of Richard III.〔 Urquhart frequently talks through the camera to the audience, breaking the fourth wall using the aside. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「House of Cards (UK TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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