- Title
- Editorial
- Creator
- Emeljanow, Victor
- Relation
- Popular Entertainment Studies Vol. 7, Issue 1-2, p. 1-5
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Over the last few issues of the journal we’ve noted the increasing scholarly interest in cultural mobility (pace Stephen Greenblatt), and in particular, the ways in which popular entertainments have been appropriated and utilised as the laisséz-passer of cultural emissaries. In this context perhaps circus has led the way, and its language of physical skills and sagacious animals have provided an instant passport which allowed participants to engage with each other. The search for a common language was relatively easily fulfilled. We should not, however, make the existence of a common language act as the criterion for a cultural artefact’s accessibility. If this were to be the case, how would we explain the popularity of an Edwardian musical comedy in Japan or the extraordinary success of the world’s most travelled playwright William Shakespeare in non-anglophone countries? Obviously the answers to such questions demand an understanding of the cultural conditions which welcomed such alien theatrical forms. Some of the answers may well be informed by three key aspects that underpin, for example, the discussion of a “topography of Asian Shakespeare” in Dennis Kennedy and Yong Li Lan’s edited volume Shakespeare in Asia.1 They point to elements that may distinguish the acceptance of Shakespeare but which we may also find useful in their application to non-Shakespearian interventions—nationalist appropriation, colonial instigation and intercultural revision. These elements are clearly represented in the contributions to this issue.
- Subject
- editorial; Popular Entertainment Studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1453510
- Identifier
- uon:44686
- Identifier
- ISSN:1837-9303
- Rights
- © 2016 The Author
- Language
- eng
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