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To: chajin; All

The Mikado, as one observes in many other G and S works, pokes fun more at Victorian era issues than it does with the oriental “paper screen” veneer applique of Japanese life depicted in this work. The songs “I’ve got a little list” and “The object all sublime” are very sharp satires of various aspects of British life and culture. To take the “orientalism” out of the Mikado is a fatal mistake....the joke was not on the Japanese, the joke was on the British and if “one has eyes to see”...much of western culture!


20 posted on 05/22/2016 10:11:29 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6

You’re supposed to take knee-jerk offense, you bigot!

You’re not supposed to actually understand anything.

What’s the fun of that?


34 posted on 05/22/2016 10:49:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("During a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" --George Orwell)
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