The Silver Box

A Comedy in Three Acts

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The Silver Box is a comedy in three acts by John Galsworthy, printed among the first series of his plays. The list of persons names John Barthwick, a wealthy Liberal, with his wife, their son Jack, their solicitor Roper and their charwoman Mrs. Jones, and also a landlady, a detective and a police magistrate.

The stage directions have Jones drink whisky, take a cigarette from the silver box and, with cunning glee, pocket the box and a purse. Snow, a detective, draws a woman toward the door, and Jones cries out that she is his wife and a respectable woman and that he took the thing himself. In a police court exchange, Jack says he does not remember anything of the sort, and Jones says he has never been had up in a police court before.

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.