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4 days ago · Wodehouse is better known, I think, (at least by me) for his romantic comedies. He wrote many of them, absurd, repetitive, and so full of coincidences that one stands atop another's shoulders like a circus act. It becomes apparent that you can't avoid them, so you laugh and accept it and just enjoy the tart and risible humor of the man's pen.
3 days ago · What is the significance of the title, Wodehouse in Wonderland? The play takes place in Plum’s office in Long Island during the 1950s. He was living there because of the ‘great shaming’, as he called it, of his experiences as an internee during the war, when the Germans manipulated him into making what became known as the ‘Berlin ...
3 days ago · What a wonderful legacy he left behind. Wodehouse in Wonderland: is on at York Theatre Royal until 22 April. Box office 01904 623568 yorktheatreroyal.co.uk. As we took our seats in York Theatre Royal’s Main Auditorium, we already felt very much at ease seeing the delightfully comfortable and elegant set, (designed by Lee Newby ) lit up to ...
1 day ago · Apart from official documents, Mountbatten was not much of a reader, though he liked P. G. Wodehouse's books. He enjoyed the cinema; his favourite stars were Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Grace Kelly and Shirley MacLaine. In general, however, he had a limited interest in the arts. Mentorship of King Charles III
4 days ago · Totleigh Towers is situated in the (fictional) village of Totleigh-in-the-Wold. Brinkley is mentioned in the novel as being the residence of Bertie's aunt Dahlia. Blandings Castle is the setting for another of P.G. Wodehouse's series of novels. Downton Abbey is the setting for the popular BBC TV series of that name.
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4 days ago · I love P. G. Wodehouse’s kindly descriptions of social awkwardness between the sexes. He respects the social poise of women (never personally noticed that I had much of that, but thanks Mr Wodehouse, I’ll take it!) and is gently self-deprecating towards his own sex in a way that leaves me feeling kindly towards one and all.
5 days ago · For my next one I’m taking the easy way out and also changing the tone of things completely with Service With a Smile (1961) by P. G. Wodehouse. Set in my favourite Blandings, this one has one of Wodehouse’s typically convoluted plots with separated lovers, disapproving parents, plots to steal and sell pigs, unwanted campers and a very harried Lord Emsworth to whose rescue comes Uncle Fred.
