Home › Drama › The Skin Game (A Tragi-Comedy)
The Skin Game (A Tragi-Comedy)
About this book
A tragi-comedy by John Galsworthy dramatizing a bitter feud between an established landed family and newly wealthy industrialists competing over land and social standing in England. Suited to readers interested in early twentieth-century British drama and themes of class conflict.
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga, and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Portrait: via Wikipedia (see source).
More by John Galsworthy
Browse all →
More in Drama
Browse all →
Hamburgische Dramaturgie
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Die natürliche Tochter
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Die Aufgeregten
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The sea-gull
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
An ideal husband
Oscar Wilde
La tentation de Saint Antoine
Gustave Flaubert
Työmiehen vaimo
Minna Canth
Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare