John Galsworthy, Nobel laureate and master of British social drama, presents his Fourth Series: three plays that dissect the hidden fractures of English life. A Bit o' Love follows Michael Strangway, a village clergyman whose gentle teachings about love and faith collide with the messy reality of his own troubled marriage. The arrival of his wife Beatrice unravels secrets that threaten the moral authority he has built among his flock. The Summer offers a quieter but equally piercing examination of desire and restraint among the country gentry. Together, these works showcase Galsworthy's signature gift: rendering the polite surface of Edwardian society as a battleground of competing moral claims, where everyone is both judge and judged. These are not comfortable plays. They ask what happens when the man who preaches virtue must confront his own fallibility, and what price the community pays for maintaining its pleasant fictions.
