History Literature / JeevesAndWooster

---> And presently the eyes closed, the muscles relaxed, the breathing became soft and regular, and sleep which does something which has slipped my mind to the something sleeve of care poured over me in a healing wave.[[note]]The last line of ''The Code of the Woosters''[[/note]]

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** "Jeeves Takes Charge", "The Artistic Career of Corky"[[note]]rewrite of "Leave it to Jeeves"[[/note]], "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg", "The Aunt and the Sluggard", "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy", "Without the Option", "Fixing It for Freddie"[[note]]rewrite of a Reggie Pepper story, "Helping Freddie"[[/note]], "Clustering Round Young Bingo", "Bertie Changes His Mind"

* ''Jeeves and the King of Clubs''by Ben Schott (2018)
** ''Jeeves and the Leap of Faith (2020)

* NotGoodWithPeople: Gussie Fink-Nottle finds newts easy, people difficult. Especially women.

* BuxomBeautyStandard: Bertie might be a CelibateHero, but that doesn't mean he can't appreciate the female form. In the first story, "Jeeves Takes Charge", he has to point out that Florence Craye is "seen sideways, most awfully good-looking."

* BuxomIsBetter: Bertie might be a CelibateHero, but that doesn't mean he can't appreciate the female form. In the first story, "Jeeves Takes Charge", he has to point out that Florence Craye is "seen sideways, most awfully good-looking."

* ImpoverishedPatrician: Any character who isn't IdleRich is likely to be this.
--> '''Bingo''': I say, you don't know how I could raise fifty quid somehow, do you?
--> '''Bertie''': [[StatingTheSimpleSolution Why don't you work?]]
--> '''Bingo''': Work? What, me? No, I shall have to think of some way.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Many of the goofy musical-hall songs of which Bertie is an aficionado are real-life examples of the genre.

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->''"I know lots of people think I’m much too dependent on my man Jeeves. My Aunt Agatha, who can make herself more offensive on any given subject than any other woman of her weight and age in the country, has even gone so far as to call him my keeper. Well, it’s quite true that I leave most of the thinking to him; but what I say is: Why not? I’m a fearful chump--ask anybody--whereas Jeeves, if he cared to take a whirl at it, could be Prime Minister or something tomorrow. The man’s a genius. Absolutely! From the collar upward he stands alone."''
-->-- '''Bertie Wooster''' (from [[https://www.madameulalie.org/sep/Jeeves_Takes_Charge.html "Jeeves Takes Charge"]])

->''"You will find Mr. Wooster an exceedingly pleasant and amiable young gentleman, but not intelligent. By no means intelligent. Mentally he is negligible - ''quite'' negligible."''
-->-- '''Jeeves''' (from "Scoring Off Jeeves")

Arthur Treacher was Jeeves in two 1930's films, ''Thank You Jeeves'' and ''Step Lively, Jeeves!'', with Creator/DavidNiven taking the part of Bertie Wooster in the first of them. In the Sixties, Ian Carmichael (better known for playing Literature/LordPeterWimsey) as Bertie and Dennis Price as Jeeves appeared in the TV series ''The World of Wooster''. (It is on record that Wodehouse did not care much for any of these adaptations.)

** Though unlike some of [[UpperClassTwit his friends]], he doesn't quite achieve full status as TheFool; Jeeves himself comments in ''Thank You, Jeeves'' that Bertie "is capable of acting very shrewdly on occasion."

* IdleRich: Bertie, and many of his acquaintances.

* {{Moe}}: The franchise has InUniverse examples.

* MyNaymeIs: In "The Spot of Art", Aunt Dahlia is appalled when Bertie tells her he is dating a girl named "Gwladys" with a silent "w".

* GenteelInterbellumSetting: While the stories and novels occasionally have topical references to the time when they were written, the world they portray is very much that of TheEdwardianEra when Wodehouse was a young man. Creator/GeorgeOrwell famously wrote that "Bertie Wooster, if he ever existed, was killed [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI round about 1915]]."

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY:
** Bertie's last name is pronounced like "Wuh-ster" rather than "Woo-Ster." For that matter, P.G. Wodehouse's name is promounced "Wood-House" rather than "Wode-House."
** Also the case with minor character Cyril "Barmy" Fotheringay-Phipps, whose surname is pronounced 'funghy-phipps'.

* ''Literature/ThankYouJeeves''\

The Jeeves stories were also the basis and inspiration for an Creator/AndrewLloydWebber musical, ''Jeeves'', which was released in 1975 and failed so spectacularly both critically and commercially that it's still thought of as Webber's first real flop. However, in 1996 the musical was reworked, rewritten and re-released as ''By Jeeves'', which was far more successful and got generally positive reviews.