Joy

A Play on the Letter I

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Joy, by John Galsworthy, is a play on the letter I in three acts. The list of persons names Colonel Hope, retired, Mrs. Hope, his wife, Miss Beech, their old governess, and Letty, their daughter. The action passes throughout midsummer day on the lawn of Colonel Hope's house, near the Thames above Oxford.

Mrs. Hope says it is not her business to look after Dick's worms, and that she won't have them anywhere where they can crawl about. Rose is asked about Miss Joy's frock and answers that she can't get on with the back without Miss Joy. Dick says, hastily, that of course he believes in morals, but he can't help seeing marriage is awfully important, and Joy answers solemnly that it's sacred.

About the author

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy trained as a barrister but devoted his career to novels, plays, and short fiction about English social life. The Forsyte Saga, the family chronicle singled out when he received the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature, brings together three novels and two interludes.