Plays and Adaptations

This database includes published and unpublished plays and sketches.

Nine of these items are listed in Section J: The Stage, which for purposes of the Collection, is included in the database as a reference resource to list stage productions in which Wodehouse was involved. The majority of Section J titles were not published. The Section J database will not indicate if copies of those titles have been donated to the Collection.

If titles have been published, are known to exist as typescripts, or have been donated to the Collection, following the example used in the McIlvaine Addendum, they will be listed in the Section C database. For more complete information on this, please see the explanatory text contained in Section J.

Of special note, it is fairly certain that the titles Anything Goes and The Three Musketeers listed in the Section C database are the only published libretti of Wodehouse musicals.

An omnibus volume titled Four Plays, containing four of the plays in this database, was published in 1983 by Methuen. The listing for this can be found in Section B database as #27a.

Many new stage productions of Wodehouse works have been launched in the last few decades. Please feel free to advise us of new titles. We will be interested in any items, published or in typescript form, of these productions.

Plays in McIlvaine Bibliography

McIlvaine #	Title	Book Cond.	DW Cond.	Format	Date	Author	Adapted By	Adapted From	Publisher	Place of Publication	Notes
C1a	Hearts and Diamonds				1926	Marischka, Granichstaedten	English adapt. PGW, Laurie Wylie	From The Orlov	Keith Prowse & Company	London
C2a	The Play's the Thing				1927	Ferenc Molnar	Adapted by P.G.Wodehouse	from Hungarian	Brentano's	New York
C2b	The Play's the Thing				1927	Ferenc Molnar	Adapted by P.G.Wodehouse	n/a	Samuel French	NY, Holly. London, Toronto
C3a	Good Morning Bill	VG-		HC	1928	P. G. Wodehouse	Adapted by P.G.Wodehouse	Based on the Hungarian of Ladislaus Fodor	Methuen & Company Ltd.	London	UK first edition
C4a	A Damsel in Distress	G	n/a	PB	1930	Ian Hay, P. G. Wodehouse	n/a	n/a	Samuel French	London, New York	First issue (matches McIlvaine C4a.1)
C5a	Baa, Baa, Black Sheep				1930	Ian Hay, P. G. Wodehouse	n/a	n/a	Samuel French	London, New York
C6a	Leave it To Psmith	VG	n/a	PB	1932	Ian Hay, P. G. Wodehouse	n/a	n/a	Samuel French Ltd.	London, New York	First issue (matches McIlvaine C6a.1)
C7a	Candle-Light				1934	Siegfried Geyer	Adapted by P. G. Wodehouse	n/a	Samuel French	NY, LosA., London, Toronto
C8a	Anything Goes	F-	n/a	PB	1936	Guy Bolton, PGW, music and lyrics Cole Porter	n/a	n/a	Harms, Inc./Sam. French	NY Lon. Manch./NY LA Tor.	First edition (only publication of this libretto)
C9a	The Three Musketeers				1937	Wm. McGuire,lyrics PGW,C. Grey, music R.Friml	n/a	n/a	Chappell&Co./Harms Inc.	London, Sidney/New York
C10a	Don't Listen, Ladies	VG	n/a	PB	1952	Stephen Powys (PGW pseudonym)+ Guy Bolton	n/a	from the French of Sacha Guitry	Samuel French Ltd.	London	First Issue, Text in Plays of the Year 1948-1949
C11a	Come On, Jeeves				1960	P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton	n/a	n/a	Evans Brothers Limited	London
C12a	Oh, Clarence!				1969	John Chapman	John Chapman	Blandings Castle+ Other Lord Emsworth Stories	English Theater Guild Ltd.	London

Published Plays in McIlvaine Addendum

McIlvaine #	Title	Book Cond.	DW Cond.	Format	Date	Author	Adapted By	Adapted From	Publisher	Place of Publication	Notes
C3b	Good Morning Bill				1928	P. G. Wodehouse	Adapted by P.G.Wodehouse	Based on the Hungarian of Ladislaus Fodor	Methuen/Samuel French	Canada
C6b	Leave it To Psmith				1932	Ian Hay, P. G. Wodehouse	n/a	n/a	Samuel French Inc.	New York
C7a	Candle-Light,variant, orange cover, price $.85				1934	Siegfried Geyer	Adapted by P. G. Wodehouse	n/a	Samuel French	NY, LosA., London, Toronto	no photo after pg.8, no ad after pg. 101
	Candle-Light	N	n/a	PB	2019?	Siegfried Geyer	Adapted by P. G. Wodehouse	n/a	Samuel French	US, UK, Canada	c.2019 Reissue of C7a
C10a	Don't Listen, Ladies (in Plays of the Year)	VG	G	HC	1952	Stephen Powys (PGW pseudonym)+ Guy Bolton	n/a	from the French of Sacha Guitry	Paul Elek	London	Text in Plays of the Year 1948-1949 (pp. 535-641)
C13a	If I Were You				1929	P. G. Wodehouse with Guy Bolton	n/a	n/a	n/a	Privately published
C14a	Arthur				1952	n/a	Adapted by P. G. Wodehouse	From Ferenc Molnar	Crown Publishers, Inc.	New York	in Molnar's Romantic Comedies
C15a	Game of Hearts				1952	n/a	Adapted by P. G. Wodehouse	From Ferenc Molnar	Crown Publishers, Inc.	New York	in Molnar's Romantic Comedies

Unpublished Plays and Sketches in McIlvaine Addendum

McIlvaine #	Title	Format	Date	Author	Adapted From
CA1	Cricketing	TS	1907	P. G. Wodehouse with Herbert Westbrook
CA2	After the Show	TS	n.d.	P. G. Wodehouse
CA3	A Gentleman of Leisure	TS	1910	P. G. Wodehouse with John Stapleton
CA4	Love Among the Chickens	TS	n.d.	P. G. Wodehouse with Rudolf Lothar
CA5	Brother Alfred	TS	1913	P. G. Wodehouse
CA6a	Sally Smith	TS	1927	P. G. Wodehouse	orig.version C3a submitted for censorship app.
CA6b	Good Morning, Bill	TS	post war	P. G. Wodehouse	rewritten version of C3a, set in USA
CA7	Hearts and Diamonds	TS	1928	P. G. Wodehouse
CA8	Her Cardboard Lover	TS	1928	P. G. Wodehouse
CA9	Who's Who	TS	1934	P. G. Wodehouse with Guy Bolton	rewritten version of C13a
CA10	The Inside Stand	TS	1935	P. G. Wodehouse
CA11	Nothing Serious (Act 1)	TS	1951	P. G. Wodehouse
CA12	Joy in the Morning	TS	1954	P. G. Wodehouse
CA13	Summer Guest	TS	post war	P. G. Wodehouse

Plays Published Post-Addendum or Not in Mclvaine or Addendum

Title	Book Cond.	DW Cond.	Format	Date	Author	Adapted By	Adapted From	Publisher	Place of Publication	Notes
Uncle Fred Flits by				1949	n/a	Dramatized by Perry Clark	Uncle Fred Flits By	Dramatic Publishing Co.	Chicago
Too Much Springtime				1955	n/a	Dramatized Marjorie Duhan Adler	The Mating Season	Dramatic Publishing Co.	Chicago
Oh, Kay!	G-	n/a	TS	1960?	PGW, Bolton, lyr. I.Gershwin, mus. G. Gershwin			Unpublished		Libretto 1960 revival, add.?PGW lyrics not in Day/Ring
Leave it to Jane	G	n/a	TS	1977?	Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, mus. Jerome Kern			Unpublished		Libretto Tams-Witmark Mus. Lib. ibrary, maroon covers
Bobbles & Plum Four Satirical Playlets	N	n/a	PB	2009	Bertram Flietcher Robinson & P. G. Wodehouse			MX Publishing Ltd.	London	Compiled by Paul R. Spiring
Jeeves In Bloom	N	n/a	PB	2011	Margaret Raether	Adapted by Margaret Raether	From Stories of P.G. Wodehouse	Playscripts, Inc.	New York
Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense	N	n/a	PB	2013	Robert Goodale and David Goodale	Adapted by R. & D. Goodale	Based on Stories of P. G. Wodehouse	Nick Hern Books	London
Jeeves Intervenes	N	n/a	PB	2014	Margaret Raether	Adapted by Margaret Raether	From Stories of P.G. Wodehouse	Playscripts, Inc.	New York
Jeeves Takes a Bow	N	n/a	PB	2015	Margaret Raether	Adapted by Margaret Raether	From Stories of P.G. Wodehouse	Playscripts, Inc.	New York
Jeeves at Sea	N	n/a	PB	2017	Margaret Raether	Adapted by Margaret Raether	From Stories of P.G. Wodehouse	Playscripts, Inc.	New York
Jeeves Saves the Day					Margaret Raether	Adapted by Margaret Raether	From Stories of P.G. Wodehouse			unpublished as of 081420, produced by First Folio Theater, Chicago 2/1-3/1 2020
The Mating Season					Tim Garfield	Adapted by Tim Garfield	From The Mating Season
Over the Moon					Steven Dietz	Adapted by Steven Dietz	Adapted from The Small Bachelor
A Damsel in Distress				2015?	Jeremy Sams, Robert Hudson	Adapt.by Jeremy Sams, Rob.Hudson	Based on Damsel novel, play, musical comedy			produced by Chicester Festival Theater, 2015
The Cabaret Girl			TS	1922	P.G.Wodehouse					Script of musical McI #J25, in British Library holdings

Section C: Plays and Adaptations

Table of Contents

Plays in McIlvaine Bibliography

Published Plays in McIlvaine Addendum

Unpublished Plays and Sketches in McIlvaine Addendum

Plays Published Post-Addendum or Not in Mclvaine or Addendum