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kennyc · 04-09-2011, 05:44 AM

A Glimpse of Stocking? Shocking!

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/04/0...l?pagewanted=2

P.G. Wodehouse

http://wodehouse.thefreelibrary.com/

From Wikipedia:
Wodehouse took a modest attitude to his own works. In Over Seventy (1957) he wrote: "I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that – humorists they are sometimes called – are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at."

However, he also lightly taunted his critics, as in the introduction to Summer Lightning.[22]

"A certain critic—for such men, I regret to say, do exist—made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names'. He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha; but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy."

04-09-2011, 05:44 AM	#29487
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,922 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6	Reading about "Anything Goes" a broadway musical revival and P.G. Wodehouse A Glimpse of Stocking? Shocking! http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/04/0...l?pagewanted=2 P.G. Wodehouse http://wodehouse.thefreelibrary.com/ From Wikipedia: Wodehouse took a modest attitude to his own works. In Over Seventy (1957) he wrote: "I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that – humorists they are sometimes called – are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at." However, he also lightly taunted his critics, as in the introduction to Summer Lightning.[22] "A certain critic—for such men, I regret to say, do exist—made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names'. He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha; but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy." Last edited by kennyc; 04-09-2011 at 06:04 AM.