Editing Three Men in a Boat (section)

==In popular culture==

The river trip is easy to recreate, following the detailed description, and this is sometimes done by fans of the book. Much of the route remains unchanged. For example, all the [[pub]]s and inns named are still open, with the exception of ''The Crown'' in Marlow, which closed in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Crown, Marlow |url=https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/buckinghamshire/marlow_crown.html |website=www.closedpubs.co.uk |access-date=19 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Farewell party for Marlow hotel |url=https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/2339848.farewell-party-for-marlow-hotel/ |access-date=19 August 2024 |work=Bucks Free Press |date=15 June 2008 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Simpson |first1=David |title=Everyman Marlow |url=https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/69548 |website=cinematreasures.org |access-date=19 August 2024}}</ref><ref group="Note">
''The Blue Posts'', 81 Newman Street, London;''The Royal Stag'' and the ''Manor House'' (the latter now called ''The Manor Hotel'') at [[Datchet]]; ''The George and Dragon'' at [[Wargrave]]; ''[[Bull Inn, Sonning|The Bull]]'' at [[Sonning]]; ''The Swan'' at [[Pangbourne]]; ''The Bull'' at [[Streatley, Berkshire|Streatley]]; and ''The [[Barley Mow, Long Wittenham|Barley Mow]]'' at [[Clifton Hampden]]. ''The Bells of Ouseley'' at [[Old Windsor]] still exists, but the building was demolished and rebuilt in 1936. ''The Crown'' at [[Marlow, Buckinghamshire|Marlow]] moved to the adjacent building in the 1930s, and a Boots chemist is now in the original location. In its new location, the Crown lasted until 2008, when it was closed permanently, and replaced with first a kitchenware shop, and then a cinema.</ref>

===Audio===
[[Audiobook]]s of the book have been released many times, with different narrators, including [[Sir Timothy Ackroyd]] (2013), [[Hugh Laurie]] (1999), [[Nigel Planer]] (1999), [[Martin Jarvis (actor)|Martin Jarvis]] (2005) and Steven Crossley (2011).

The [[BBC]] has broadcast on radio a number of dramatisations of the story, including a musical version in 1962 starring [[Kenneth Horne]], [[Leslie Phillips]] and [[Hubert Gregg]], a three-episode version in 1984 with [[Jeremy Nicholas (writer)|Jeremy Nicholas]] playing all of the characters and a two-part adaptation for ''Classic Serial'' in 2013 with [[Hugh Dennis]], [[Steve Punt]] and [[Julian Rhind-Tutt]].

=== Film and television ===

*''[[Three Men in a Boat (1920 film)|Three Men in a Boat]]'', a 1920 silent British film with [[Lionelle Howard]] as J., [[H. Manning Haynes]] as Harris and [[Johnny Butt]] as George.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176233/ ''Three Men in a Boat'' (1920)] [[Internet Movie Database]]. Retrieved 28 June 2013.</ref>
*''[[Three Men in a Boat (1933 film)|Three Men in a Boat]]'' a 1933 British film with [[William Austin (actor)|William Austin]], [[Edmund Breon]], and [[Billy Milton]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024662/ ''Three Men in a Boat'' (1933)] [[Internet Movie Database]]. Retrieved 28 June 2013.</ref>
*''[[Three Men in a Boat (1956)|Three Men in a Boat]]'', a 1956 British film with [[David Tomlinson]] as J., [[Jimmy Edwards]] as Harris and [[Laurence Harvey]] as George.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049847/ ''Three Men in a Boat'' (1956)] [[Internet Movie Database]]. Retrieved 28 June 2013.</ref>
*''[[Three Men in a Boat (1961 film)|Three Men in a Boat]]'', a 1961 German film very loosely based on the book.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q1257079|id=tt0054826|title=Drei Mann in einem Boot}}</ref>
* ''[[Three Men in a Boat (1975 film)|Three Men in a Boat]]'', a 1975 [[BBC]]-produced version for television adapted by [[Tom Stoppard]] and directed by [[Stephen Frears]], with [[Tim Curry]] as J., [[Michael Palin]] as Harris, and [[Stephen Moore (actor)|Stephen Moore]] as George.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073803/ ''Three Men in a Boat'' (1975)] [[Internet Movie Database]]. Retrieved 28 June 2013.</ref>
*''[[Three Men in a Boat (1979 film)|Three Men in a Boat]]'' (Russian: Трое в лодке, не считая собаки), a 1979, musical comedy filmed by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] television, with [[Andrei Mironov (actor)|Andrei Mironov]] as J., [[Aleksandr Shirvindt]] as Harris and [[Mikhail Derzhavin]] as George.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230898/ ''Troye v lodke, ne schitaya sobaki'' (1979) ] [[Internet Movie Database]]. Retrieved 28 June 2013.</ref>

[[Peter Lovesey]]'s Victorian detective novel ''Swing, Swing Together'' (1976), partly based on the book, featured as the second episode of the television series ''[[Cribb]]'' (1980).

In 2005 the comedians [[Griff Rhys Jones]], [[Dara Ó Briain]], and [[Rory McGrath]] embarked on a recreation of the novel for what was to become a regular yearly [[BBC]] TV series, ''[[Three Men in a Boat (TV series)|Three Men in a Boat]]''. Their first expedition was along the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford, recreating the original novel.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x92dm/episodes/guide First broadcast: 27 Dec 2010] [[BBC Two]]. Retrieved 28 June 2013.</ref>

===Theatre===
A stage adaptation earned [[Jeremy Nicholas (writer)|Jeremy Nicholas]] a [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play|Best Newcomer in a Play]] nomination at the [[1981 Laurence Olivier Awards]]. The book was adapted by [[Clive Francis]] for a 2006 production that toured the UK.<ref>{{cite news|title=Three men in a boat|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2006/10/31/three_men_in_a_boat_review_feature.shtml|author=Sutton, Katharine|date=31 October 2006|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=12 January 2018}}</ref>

===Art===
A sculpture of a stylised boat was created in 1999 to commemorate ''Three Men in a Boat'' on the [[Millennium Green]] in [[New Southgate]], London, where the author lived as a child. In 2012 a mosaic of a dog's head was put onto the same Green to commemorate Montmorency.

===Other works of literature===
In 1891, ''Three Women in One Boat: A River Sketch'' by Constance MacEwen was published.<ref>{{cite book |title=Three Women in One Boat: A River Sketch |publisher=F. V. White |first=Constance |last=MacEwen |year=1891 |location=London |oclc=156765043}}</ref> This book relates the journey of three young university women who set out to emulate the river trip in ''Three Men in a Boat'' in an effort to raise the spirits of one of them, who is about to be expelled from university. They bring a cat called Tintoretto in place of Montmorency.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://heartheboatsing.com/2024/05/08/three-men-and-three-women-in-boats-to-say-nothing-of-the-dog-and-the-cat-part-ii |title=Three Men and Three Women in Boats (To Say Nothing of the Dog and the Cat) – Part II | last=Buckhorn |first=Göran R. |website=heartheboatsing.com |date=2024-05-08 |access-date=2024-07-14}}</ref>

[[P. G. Wodehouse]] mentions the Plaster of Paris trout in his 1910 novel ''[[Psmith in the City]]''. Psmith's boss, while delivering a political speech, pretends to have personally experienced a succession of men claiming to have caught a fake trout. Psmith interrupts the speech to "let him know that a man named Jerome had pinched his story."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wodehouse |first1=P. G. |title=Psmith in the City |date=1910 |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6753/pg6753.txt}}</ref>

Three Men in a Boat is referenced in the 1956 parody novel on mountaineering, ''[[The Ascent of Rum Doodle]]'', where the head porter Bing is said to spend "much of his leisure immersed in a Yogistani translation of it."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bowman|first1=W.E.|title=The Ascent of Rum Doodle|date=1956|publisher=Max Parrish|isbn=0099317702|page=50}}</ref>

In ''[[Have Space Suit—Will Travel]]'', by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] (1958), the main character's father is an obsessive fan of the book, and spends much of his spare time repeatedly re-reading it.<ref name=Willis>{{cite book|author1=McCarty, Michael|author2=Koontz, Dean R.|author3=Neil Gaiman|title=Giants of the Genre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Rq7nCRyvb0C&pg=PT107|date=July 2003|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=978-1-59224-100-2|page=126|chapter=[[Connie Willis]]}}</ref>

The book ''Three Men (Not) in a Boat: and Most of the Time Without a Dog'' (1983, republished 2011) by Timothy Finn is a loosely related novel about a walking trip.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

A re-creation in 1993 by poet [[Kim Taplin]] and companions resulted in the travelogue ''Three Women in a Boat''.<ref name="Taplin">{{cite book |title=Three Women in a Boat |last=Taplin |first=Kim |year=1993 |publisher=Impact Books |isbn=1-874687-13-7}}</ref>

Another re-creation of Jerome's journey appeared in the same year. ''[[Two and a Half Men in a Boat]]'' by novelist [[Nigel Williams (author)|Nigel Williams]] described the author's trip down the Thames accompanied by two friends (explorer JP and BBC executive [[Alan Yentob|Alan]]) and Williams' dog Badger.<ref name="Williams">{{cite book|title=Two and a Half Men in a Boat |last=Williams |first=Nigel |year=1993 | publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-0340590478}}</ref>

''Gita sul Tevere'' is an Italian humorous book inspired by this famous English novel.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

Science fiction author [[Connie Willis]] paid tribute to Jerome's novel in her own 1997 [[Hugo Award]]–winning book ''[[To Say Nothing of the Dog]]''. Her time-travelling protagonist also takes an ill-fated voyage on the Thames with two humans and a dog as companions, and encounters George, Harris, 'J' and Montmorency. The title of Willis' novel refers to the full title of the original book.<ref name=Willis/>

Fantasy author [[Harry Turtledove]] wrote a set of stories in which Jerome's characters encounter supernatural creatures: "Three Men and a Vampire" and "Three Men and a Werewolf" were published in ''Some Time Later: Fantastic Voyages in Alternate Worlds'' (2017).<ref>{{cite book|author=AJ Sikes|title=Some Time Later: Fantastic Voyages Through Alternate Worlds|date=June 2017|publisher=Thinking Ink Press |isbn=978-1942480204}}</ref> "Three Men and a Sasquatch" was published in ''Next Stop on the #13'' in 2019.

[[Anne Youngson]] wrote ''Three Women and a Boat'' (Penguin, 2021), about three middle-aged strangers setting off on an adventure in a [[narrowboat]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Youngson |first=Anne |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1255799635 |title=Three women and a boat |date=2021 |others=Liane Payne |isbn=978-1-78416-533-8 |location=London, England |oclc=1255799635}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-27 |title=A new start after 60: 'I always dreamed of being a writer – and published my first novel at 70' |url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/aug/27/a-new-start-after-60-anne-youngson-meet-me-at-the-museum |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> The novel was chosen for [[BBC Radio 2]] ''Book Club''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Radio 2 Book Club - Three Women and A Boat |url=https://readinggroups.org/news/radio-2-book-club-three-women-and-a-boat |website=readinggroups.org |publisher=The Reading Agency |access-date=13 April 2024 |date=2021}}</ref>

In ''<nowiki/>'L’amica genial'' by [[Elena Ferrante]], a copy of ''Tre uomini in barca'' by Jerome K. Jerome is awarded to protagonist Elena Greco as 4th prize for most frequent use of the local library.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ferrante |first=Elena |title=L'amica geniale |publisher=Edizioni e/o |year=2011 |isbn=978-88-6632-032-6 |location=Rome |pages=118 |language=Italian |trans-title=My Brilliant Friend}}</ref>