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Revision as of 22:34, 15 February 2022
Good Friday: A Play in Verse is a 1916 work by English poet John Masefield.
When World War I began, 36-year-old Masefield was old enough to be exempted from military service. Recruited into the War Propaganda Bureau, he had chosen to serve briefly as a hospital orderly before a lecture tour of America in the winter of 1915-16[1] before returning to his country retreat at Lollingdon Farm a setting that inspired a number of poems and sonnets. The Good Friday in 1916 that would be used to title his religious play fell on April 21.
14 April 1960 saw the broadcast of Hugh Stewart's Home Service production 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.[2]
Setting the scene following the crucifixion of Jesus (Good Friday), Masefield directs that Pilate should enter "as the darkness reddens to a glare."[2]
References
- ^ "John Masefield (1878 – 1967) – The War Poets Association". Retrieved 2021-12-30.
- ^ a b John Masefield Society: Good Friday: A Play in Verse (1916)