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Galsworthy was also an excellent playwright. His works, written
in a naturalistic style, frequently analyze some controversial
ethical or social problem. His theatrical play The Silver Box (1906)
-the first in which he used the resource of presenting two parallel
families- had a favorable reception for its legal theme as it tries to

show the bitter contrast of the different laws made for the
wealthy and for the poor.

His plays include Disputa (1909, a study of industrial relations),
Justicia (1910, a realistic portrait of life in prison that aroused in

him a deep feeling of the need to reform it), La paloma (1912) ,

An Old Englishman (1924) and The Roof (1929). Perhaps Loyalties

(1922) is the best of them all. He also wrote poems. In 1929 he

received the Order of Merit and in 1932, as indicated above, the

Nobel Prize for Literature.

In 1905 he married Ada Pearson, wife of his cousin A. J.
Galsworthy, with whom he had extramarital affairs for ten years.
The Irene from The Forsythe Saga is somewhat of a portrait of Ada

Galsworthy. His novels, due to the absence of complicated
psychological portraits and a simplified social point of view, came
to be considered faithful models of English life at that time.
Galsworthy is remembered for his evocation of upper-middle-

class life in the Victorian and Edwardian period and for his
creation of Soames Forsythe, a deplorable character who
succeeds in arousing the reader's sympathy.

The television series The Forsythe Saga, produced by the British

Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), gained immense popularity not

only in Britain and rekindled interest in an author whose name
had practically been forgotten after his death.

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