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The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse, Hardback Book

The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse Hardback

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Although he wrote hundreds of songs and was a key figure in the birth of the American stage musical, P.

G. Wodehouse's (1881-1975) long and influential career as a lyricist has been almost completely forgotten and unheralded - until now.

Highly regarded by literati for his rich, sardonic Wooster and Jeeves books (among his more than ninety novels and volumes of short stories), Wodehouse broke new ground by writing songs that were cohesively integrated into the narrative action of musicals rather than presented as a string of unrelated tunes, which was the then-standard format.

Particularly in the shows he wrote with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, Wodehouse transformed the musical from a poor man's Gilbert and Sullivan-style operetta into a more idiomatic and respectable form based on contemporary life.

This book sets the lyrics from his nearly forty theatrical productions within the context of each individual show, providing incisive and informative commentary for each.

Lavishly illustrated with photos and memorabilia, Barry Day establishes why, throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Wodehouse was considered a top-tier theatrical figure on both sides of the Atlantic.

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