Good Friday: A Play in Verse

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.

[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.

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] Setting the scene following the crucifixion of Jesus in Good Friday, Masefield directs that Pilate should enter "as the darkness reddens to a glare.

[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]