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John Masefield in 1916
By 1913 Masefield was best known for his long narrative poem, Dauber ,[6 ] St James's Theatre was reviving his plays The Witch [7 ] Nan .[8 ] 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 ] 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 ]
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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" .
^ "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
^ 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
^ The North American Review Vol. 203, No. 725 (Apr., 1916), pp. 631-632
^ a b John Masefield Society : Good Friday: A Play in Verse (1916)
^ Elrick, Manya (2013). " . 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
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