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Title: The Project Gutenberg Plays of John Galsworthy, Complete

Author: John Galsworthy

Release Date: September 26, 2004 [EBook #4269]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PLAYS OF GALSWORTHY ***

Produced by David Widger

THE COMPLETE PLAYS OF JOHN GALSWORTHY

CONTENTS:

First Series:
The Silver Box
Joy
Strife

Second Series:
The Eldest Son
The Little Dream
Justice

Third Series:
The Fugitive
The Pigeon
The Mob

Fourth Series:
A Bit O' Love
The Foundations
The Skin Game

Six Short Plays:
The First and The Last
The Little Man
Hall-marked
Defeat
The Sun
Punch and Go

Fifth Series:
A Family Man
Loyalties
Windows

FIRST SERIES:

THE SILVER BOX
JOY
STRIFE

THE SILVER BOX

A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS

PERSONS OF THE PLAY

JOHN BARTHWICK, M.P., a wealthy Liberal
MRS. BARTHWICK, his wife
JACK BARTHWICK, their son
ROPER, their solicitor
MRS. JONES, their charwoman
MARLOW, their manservant
WHEELER, their maidservant
JONES, the stranger within their gates
MRS. SEDDON, a landlady
SNOW, a detective
A POLICE MAGISTRATE
AN UNKNOWN LADY, from beyond
TWO LITTLE GIRLS, homeless
LIVENS, their father
A RELIEVING OFFICER
A MAGISTRATE'S CLERK
AN USHER
POLICEMEN, CLERKS, AND OTHERS

TIME: The present. The action of the first two Acts takes place on
Easter Tuesday; the action of the third on Easter Wednesday week.

ACT I.
SCENE I. Rockingham Gate. John Barthwick's dining-room.
SCENE II. The same.
SCENE III. The same.

ACT II.
SCENE I. The Jones's lodgings, Merthyr Street.
SCENE II. John Barthwick's dining-room.

ACT III. A London police court.

ACT I

SCENE I

The curtain rises on the BARTHWICK'S dining-room, large,
modern, and well furnis