Editing Entertainment (section)

==== Storytelling ====
{{Main|Storytelling}}
[[File:Millais Boyhood of Raleigh.jpg|thumb|''[[The Boyhood of Raleigh]]'' by [[Sir John Everett Millais]], oil on canvas, 1870.<br />A seafarer tells the young [[Sir Walter Raleigh]] and his brother the story of what happened out at sea.]]
Storytelling is an ancient form of entertainment that has influenced almost all other forms. It is "not only entertainment, it is also thinking through human conflicts and contradictions".<ref name=Kuhns /> Hence, although stories may be delivered directly to a small listening audience, they are also presented as entertainment and used as a component of any piece that relies on a narrative, such as film, drama, ballet, and opera. Written stories have been enhanced by illustrations, often to a very high artistic standard, for example, on [[illuminated manuscript]]s and on ancient scrolls such as Japanese ones.<ref>{{cite book|last=Watanabe|first=Masako|title=Storytelling in Japanese Art|year=2011|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|location=New York|isbn=978-0-300-17590-5}}</ref> Stories remain a common way of entertaining a group that is on a journey. Showing how stories are used to pass the time and entertain an audience of travellers, [[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]] used [[pilgrim]]s in his literary work ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' in the 14th century, as did Wu Cheng'en in the 16th century in ''[[Journey to the West]]''. Even though journeys can now be completed much faster, stories are still told to passengers en route in cars and aeroplanes either orally or delivered by some form of technology.

The power of stories to entertain is evident in one of the most famous ones{{snd}}[[Scheherazade]]{{snd}}a story in the [[Iran|Persian]] professional storytelling tradition, of a woman who saves her own life by telling stories.<ref>{{cite book|last=Yamanaka|first=Yuriko|title=The Arabian nights and orientalism: perspectives from East & West|year=2006|publisher=I.B. Tauris|location=London; New York|author2=Nishio, Tetsuo}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=[[Sir Richard Francis Burton]]|title=[[The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night|Arabian nights. A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments: now entitled The book of the thousand and one nights]]|year=1958|publisher=Barker|location=[[London]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Arabian nights in English literature : studies in the reception of The thousand and one nights into British culture|year=1988|publisher=Macmillan|location=Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire|isbn=978-0-333-36693-6|editor=Caracciolo, Peter L.}}</ref> The connections between the different types of entertainment are shown by the way that stories like this inspire a retelling in another medium, such as music, film or games. For example, composers [[Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)|Rimsky-Korsakov]], [[Shéhérazade (Ravel)|Ravel]] and [[Karol Szymanowski|Szymanowski]] have each been inspired by the Scheherazade story and turned it into an orchestral work; director [[Pier Paolo Pasolini|Pasolini]] made a [[Arabian Nights (1974 film)|film adaptation]]; and there is an [[The Magic of Scheherazade|innovative video game]] based on the tale. Stories may be told wordlessly, in music, dance or puppetry for example, such as in the Javanese tradition of [[wayang]], in which the performance is accompanied by a [[gamelan]] orchestra or the similarly traditional [[Punch and Judy]] show.

Epic narratives, poems, [[saga]]s and [[allegory|allegories]] from all cultures tell such gripping tales that they have inspired countless other stories in all forms of entertainment. Examples include the Hindu ''[[Ramayana]]'' and ''[[Mahabharata]]''; [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]'' and ''[[Iliad]]''; the first Arabic novel ''[[Hayy ibn Yaqdhan]]''; the Persian epic ''[[Shahnameh]]''; the [[Sagas of Icelanders]] and the celebrated ''[[The Tale of Genji|Tale of the Genji]]''. Collections of stories, such as ''[[Grimms' Fairy Tales]]'' or those by [[Hans Christian Andersen]], have been similarly influential. Originally published in the early 19th century, this collection of folk stories significantly influence modern popular culture, which subsequently used its themes, images, symbols, and structural elements to create new entertainment forms.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rankin|first=Walter|title=Grimm pictures: fairy tale archetypes in eight horror and suspense films|year=2007|publisher=McFarland & Co|location=Jefferson, NC|isbn=978-0-7864-3174-8}}</ref>

Some of the most powerful and long-lasting stories are the foundation stories, also called [[myth of origin|origin]] or [[creation myth]]s such as the [[the Dreaming|Dreamtime]] myths of the [[Aboriginal Australians]], the Mesopotamian ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]'',<ref>{{cite book|title=The epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian epic poem and other texts in Akkadian and Sumerian (English – translated from Akkadian and Sumerian by Andrew George)|year=1999|publisher=Allen Lane|location=London|isbn=978-0-7139-9196-3}}</ref> or the Hawaiian stories of the origin of the world.<ref>{{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Vivian Laubach|title=Hawaiian Myths of Earth, Sea, and Sky|year=1966|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-1171-6|author2=Kahalewai, Marilyn}}</ref> These too are developed into books, films, music and games in a way that increases their longevity and enhances their entertainment value.

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File:William Blake - Canterbury Pilgrims Picture.jpg|[[William Blake]]'s painting of the pilgrims in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''
File:Sultan Pardons Scheherazade.jpg|[[Scheherazade]] telling her stories to King [[Shahrayar|Shahryar]] in ''[[The Arabian Nights]]''
File:Wayang golek SF Asian Art Museum.JPG|Telling stories via [[Wayang]] golek puppets in Java
File:Tosa Mitsuoki—Portrait of Murasaki Shikibu.jpg|[[Tosa Mitsuoki]] illustrating her ''[[The Tale of Genji|Tale of Genji]]''
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