A Masque of Reason

A Masque of Reason is a 1945 comedy play written by Robert Frost.

In this play Robert Frost, like John Milton in Paradise Lost, wants to justify God's ways to man.

God sets up his throne ("a plywood flat, prefabricated" that God pulls upright on its hinges to support him) and talks to Job about his condition (because he was ill).

Job is grateful of this title, and then his wife comes along, and tells God about her punishment when she was accused of witchcraft.

God apologizes for his lack of action, explaining "That is not Of record in my Note Book."