Viva Lewes Issue #162 March 2020

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COLUMNDavid JarmanMy back pagesIn December 1982, a modest publication appearedentitled, If you could only take one: a desertisland book choice by members of the University ofSussex and others. It derived from an exhibitionheld in the University Library the previoussummer. Most participants kept to their brief;others proved more ambitious in furnishing theirdesert island libraries. Stephen Medcalf selectedno fewer than eight books and still lamented that‘I haven’t yet included any Dickens’. The last ofhis choices was PG Wodehouse’s The Code of theWoosters, and it’s this book that provides the inspirationfor the Jeeves and Wooster play at LewesLittle Theatre this month.Was The Code of the Woosters Stephen Medcalf’sfavourite Wodehouse? Did he consider it to bethe author’s best? I don’t know. I once askedCharles Kerry, erstwhile Glyndebourne ChorusManager and Wodehouse devotee, which titleshe would single out for praise. His response wasimmediate: Full Moon and Laughing Gas. PGWodehouse’s own favourite was The Luck of theBodkins, a preference revealed in his reply to a letterfrom Arthur Ransome. The author of Swallowsand Amazons had written to Wodehouse tellinghim that his own boat was called ‘Lottie Blossom’,after the red headed American film star, alwaysaccompanied by a small alligator, in The Luck ofthe Bodkins. She was Ransome’s ‘favourite femalecharacter in fiction’.When we tackled Wodehouse in my book groupthe chosen novel was Joy in the Morning. It is,according to Robert McCrum in his biography ofWodehouse, ‘thought by a fervent minority to behis masterpiece’. Alternatively, anyone new to theauthor might prefer to test the water with a shortstory. How about Honeysuckle Cottage? It was oncedescribed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, of all people,as ‘one of the funniest things he had ever read’.I suppose one obstacle to a full enjoyment of Wodehousemight be the richly allusive nature of hiswriting. He very much assumes that his readersshare a body of common knowledge derived froman established literary tradition. Joy in the Morning,for example, has allusions to Longfellow,Hemingway, Tennyson, Spinoza, Thomas Mooreand Lord Peter Wimsey, to name but a few. TheBible, especially The Psalms, features prominently(‘weeping may endure for a night, butjoy cometh in the morning’), but it’s definitelyShakespeare who takes centre stage. I counted25 references in Joy in the Morning, and I’m surethere were many others I missed. Shakespeare isconstantly quoted, accurately and appositely byJeeves, fearfully mangled by Wooster.All wonderfully inventive, but my favouriteShakespeare mangling comes not in Wodehouse,but in Martin Chuzzlewit when MontagueTigg turns Hamlet’s ‘Let Herculeshimself do what he may, / the cat willmew, and dog will have his day’into ‘Hercules may layabout him with his club inevery possible direction,but he can’t preventthe cats from making amost intolerable row onthe roofs of the houses, orthe dogs from being shotin the hot weather if theyrun about the streetsunmuzzled’.Illustration by Charlotte Gann33
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