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John Galsworthy

July 2023

  • Gertrude Robins, pictured in 1911: she depicted women’s often limited choices between second-rate marriages and independence.

    Lost plays of Gertrude Robins, Bernard Shaw rival, to be revived a century on

    Powerful dramas that speak to today’s audiences, retrieved after British Library discovery, will be performed in London next month

April 2020

  • Sofa, so claustrophobic … Toby Jones in Caryl Churchill’s Imp.

    Lockdown culture
    No exit: the best plays about confinement, from Sophocles to Sartre

    Dramatists have long focused on the agonies and irritations of self-imposed or enforced isolation

February 2020

  • Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby (2013).

    Top 10s
    Top 10 tales about the rich

    From Scott Fitzgerald’s glamour to Edith Wharton’s high-society intrigue, the best of these seductive stories reveal uncomfortable secrets

August 2017

  • EleanorSuttonDuncanMooreCarolynBackhouseJacobColemanCharlotteBrimble Windows at Finborough Theatre, August 2017

    Windows review – Galsworthy's warring family put woolly liberalism to the sword

    Geoffrey Beevers’ production of little-known play about the moral fissures within an upper middle-class family is a razor-sharp take on a quietly subversive work

June 2017

  • The 2002 ITV adaptation of John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga

    Theresa May’s ‘strong and stable’ soundbite is from The Forsyte Saga

    Letters: The phrase seems to be derived from the world of corruption and privilege portrayed by John Galsworthy, writes Dr David Blazey

August 2016

  • 4. A scene from Chichester Festival Theatre’s STRIFE (IAN HUGHES, centre, as David Roberts) Photo Johan Persson 02531

    Strife review – strikingly modern Galsworthy

  • Ian Hughes (centre, with Rhys Meredith and Madhav Sharma) as David Roberts in Strife at Minerva theatre, Chichester.

    Strife review – striking drama that rages against the iniquities of capital

December 2015

  • Queen Mary helping the war effort in an East End soup kitchen, 1917

    How the Guardian reported the first world war
    Queen Mary's book for war charity, 1915

    Notable writers and artists contribute to an anthology sold in aid of Queen Mary’s convalescent hospitals

March 2012

  • Gary Oldman as George Smiley in John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    Top 10s
    Jeffrey Archer's top 10 romans-fleuves

    Jeffrey Archer: From Hornblower to the Smiley books to the Forsyte Saga, here are 10 examples of good old-fashioned multi-volume storytelling

March 2010

  • From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 2 March 1914: Our first political need

    Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 2 March 1914: Whatever Mr. John Galsworthy says is read with respect. And rightly so. For it always expresses what one uncommonly sincere and sensitive mind has really felt

July 2009

  • literary homes

    Writing home: Properties with literary connections

    Fancy a house with a literary past? Huma Qureshi opens the book on some inspiring properties

March 2007

  • The Skin Game

    Michael Billington on an unsparing portrait of the English class system at its most destructive.

May 2006

  • Hats off to old musicals

  • Loyalties

September 2003

  • The Mob

    Orange Tree, London

May 2002

  • Havens of hypocrisy

    Hywel Williams
    Hywel Williams: The Forsyte Saga reveals above all the web of property spun around England - both then and now.

April 2002

  • Rupert bared

  • Forsyte Saga hit by BBC1's Secret weapon

  • Nobody does it better...

  • The Forsyte Saga

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