For the modern audience,
The King and I presents dizzying, sometimes troubling layers of cultural appropriation and translation. We're talking about a musical written by two white men (Rodgers & Hammerstein), based on an account by an English woman (Anna Leonowens) who claimed to have helped civilize a barbaric, uneducated foreign monarch (Mongkut, of Siam – the country known today as Thailand) and save his kingdom from encroachment by the British Empire.
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