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1916 work by poet John Masefield
John Masefield in 1916
Good Friday: A Play in Verse is a 1914 work by English poet
John Masefield ,
[1] first published in
The Fortnightly Review in December 1915.
[2]
[3] Good Friday and Other Poems was published in New York in 1916 by
The Macmillan Company
[4] and 1917
Heinemann, London .
[5]
By 1913 Masefield was best known for his long narrative poem, Dauber ,
[6] and the
St James's Theatre was reviving his plays The Witch
[7] and Nan .
[8] Good Friday 1914, was on the eve of war. Following the 1916 publication, the poet
Edmund Blunden recalled reading Good Friday in a frontline dugout in
Richebourg-l'Avoué just as their sentry was killed by a sniper.
[9]
As to the success he achieves in attempting to deal with so tremendous a theme as that of his dramatic poem,
Good Friday , there may well be a difference of opinion -
North American Review April 1916
[10]
Setting the scene following the
crucifixion of Jesus in Good Friday , Masefield directs that Pilate should enter "as the darkness reddens to a glare."
[11]
A German translation of Good Friday , by
Erich Fried , was broadcast on the
BBC German Service in 1951.
[12] 14 April 1960 saw the broadcast of
Hugh Stewart 's
Home Service production of Good Friday , in which artists
William Devlin and
Ursula O'Leary , as
Pontius Pilate and
Procula , perform to the atmospheric
sound effects of the
BBC Radiophonic Workshop 's soundware, such as the
EMS Synthi 100 and
ARP Odyssey l .
[11]
References
^ C., G. H. (1921).
"Review of Reynard the Fox, or the Ghost Health Run; Enslaved, and Other Poems, John Masefield; Right Royal, John Masefield" . The Sewanee Review . 29 (1): 104–108.
ISSN
0037-3052 .
JSTOR
27533389 .
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"Good Friday - a play in verse" .
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"GOOD FRIDAY a Play in Verse by Masefield (John): Good/Very Good Blue Cloth/Paper Title Label (1916) First Edition. | Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA" .
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"Reviewed work: Good Friday and Other Poems, John Masefield" . The North American Review . 203 (725): 631–632. 1916.
JSTOR
25108801 .
^
discovered.ed.ac.uk
Good Friday : a play in verse / Masefield, John, 1878-1967 .
^
The English Review (
Advertisement ).
The Times , 3 November 1913, Issue 40359p
^ Index , The Time s, 30 October 1913, Issue 40356p
^ Repertory Season at the St. James's , The Times , 20 November 1913, Issue 40374p
^ Edmund Blunden,
Undertones of War , (Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.), 1982 (1928, 1937)), p. 75,
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29801 , accessed: 23 February 2022
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The North American Review Vol. 203, No. 725 (Apr., 1916), pp. 631-632
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John Masefield Society :
Good Friday: A Play in Verse (1916)
^ Elrick, Manya (2013).
" 'Moglichst nah am Original.' Erich Fried, Poet, Translator and Would-Be Performer" . In Brinson, Charmian; Dove, Richard (eds.). German-Speaking Exiles in the Performing Arts in Britain after 1933 . Rodopi. p. 110.
ISBN
978-94-012-0919-9 .