ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Galsworthy was a dramatist of considerable technical skill. His plays often took up specific social grievances such as the double standard of justice as applied to the upper and lower classes in The Silver Box (1906) and the confrontation of capital and labour in Strife (1909).

Detailed explanation-2: -Galsworthy was also a successful dramatist, his plays, written in a naturalistic style, usually examining some controversial ethical or social problem.

Detailed explanation-3: -Galsworthy’s famous contemporaries include: Joseph Conrad (1857–1924): Conrad was a Polish novelist. He is best known for his novels Heart of Darkness (1899) and Lord Jim (1900). Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944): Kandinsky was a Russian printmaker, painter, and art theorist.

Detailed explanation-4: -Galsworthy is remembered best as a novelist, but he made his name as a playwright arguing for social reform, one of the angry young men of the Edwardian London stage, and his plays were well enough known for T.S. Eliot writing in 1924 to refer to English drama ‘from Kyd to Galsworthy’.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Forsyte Saga is the most notable masterpiece by John Galsworthy. It is a collection of three books and two interludes which were first released between the years 1906 and 1921. The work won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1932.