Mongkut and I
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
- The Romance of the Harem by Anna Leonowens, edited by Susan Morgan
Virginia, 285 pp, £10.50, August 1991, ISBN 0 8139 1328 4
In Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical, The King and I, the English governess quarrels with her royal employer over his refusal to provide her with a separate house, outside the harem walls. Alone in her room afterwards, Anna takes her revenge with a spirited patter song, indignantly denouncing the King as a ‘conceited, self-indulgent libertine’ and seizing the occasion to inform him in – absentia – of ‘certain goings on around this place/That I wish to tell you I do not admire.’
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Vol. 14 No. 2 · 30 January 1992 » Ruth Bernard Yeazell » Mongkut and I
pages 22-23 | 2919 words