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    Good Friday: “The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.”
    Good Friday: “The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.”
    Good Friday: “The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.”
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    Good Friday: “The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.”

    By John Masefield

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    John Edward Masefield was born in 1878 in the sleepy market town of Ledbury in rural Hertfordshire. An idyllic childhood was ruined when he was left an orphan and sent to live with an Aunt who decided his education and life would be better spent at sea. At age 13 he boarded a school ship and there his love of writing and reading blossomed. By 1899 he began to publish and apart from brief service during World War I he now had a life of writing and lecture tours. He published much; novels, poetry and even an account of the disastrous war effort in the Dardanelles at Gallipoli. Upon the death of Robert Bridges in 1930, Masefield was given the prestigious position of Poet Laureate, a role he would fulfill until his death; the only poet to hold the position for a longer period was Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Despite later ill health and the death of his wife in 1960, Masefield continued to write. In 1966, he published his last book of poems, In Glad Thanksgiving, at the age of 88. In the latter part of 1966 gangrene was diagnosed in his ankle. This gradually spread through his leg and claimed his life on May 12, 1967. He was cremated and his ashes placed in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. Here we present Good Friday.

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateJan 26, 2015
    ISBN9781785431012
    Good Friday: “The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.”
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    John Masefield

    John Masefield was a well-known English poet and novelist. After boarding school, Masefield took to a life at sea where he picked up many stories, which influenced his decision to become a writer. Upon returning to England after finding work in New York City, Masefield began publishing his poetry in periodicals, and then eventually in collections. In 1915, Masefield joined the Allied forces in France and served in a British army hospital there, despite being old enough to be exempt from military service. After a brief service, Masefield returned to Britain and was sent overseas to the United States to research the American opinion on the war. This trip encouraged him to write his book Gallipoli, which dealt with the failed Allied attacks in the Dardanelles, as a means of negating German propaganda in the Americas. Masefield continued to publish throughout his life and was appointed as Poet Laureate in 1930. Masefield died in 1967 the age of 88.

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      Book preview

      Good Friday - John Masefield

      Good Friday by John Masefield 

      A DRAMATIC POEM

      John Edward Masefield was born in 1878 in the sleepy market town of Ledbury in rural Hertfordshire.

      An idyllic childhood was ruined when he was left an orphan and sent to live with an Aunt who decided his education and life would be better spent at sea.  At age 13 he boarded a school ship and there his love of writing and reading blossomed. 

      By 1899 he began to publish and apart from brief service during World War I he now had a life of writing and lecture tours.  He published much; novels, poetry and even an account of the disastrous war effort in the Dardanelles at Gallipoli.

      Upon the death of Robert Bridges in 1930, Masefield was given the prestigious position of Poet Laureate, a role he would fulfill until his death; the only poet to hold the position for a longer period was Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

      Despite later ill health and the death of his wife in 1960, Masefield continued to write. In 1966, he published his last book of poems, In Glad Thanksgiving, at the age of 88.

      In the latter part of 1966 gangrene was diagnosed in his ankle. This gradually spread through his leg and claimed his life on May 12, 1967. He was cremated and his ashes placed in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.

      Index of Contents

      Persons

      The Scene

      Good Friday

      John Masefield – A Short Biography

      John Masefield – A Concise Bibliography

      PERSONS

      Pontius Pilate, Procurator of Judaea

      Procula, His Wife.

      Longinus, A Centurion.

      A Jew, Leader of the Rabble.

      A Madman.

      A Sentry.

      Joseph of Ramah.

      Herod.

      Soldiers, Servants, the Jewish Rabble, Loiterers, Idlers.

      THE SCENE

      The Pavement, or Paved Court, outside the Roman Citadel in

      Jerusalem. At the back is the barrack wall, pierced in the

      centre with a double bronze door, weathered to a green color.

      On the right and left sides of the stage are battlemented parapets

      overlooking the city. The stage or pavement is approached by

      stone steps from the front, and by narrow stone staircases in

      the wings, one on each side, well forward. These steps are to

      suggest that the citadel is high up above the town, and that the

      main barrack gate is below. The Chief Citizen, The Rabble,

       Joseph, The Madman, Herod, and The Loiterers, etc.,

      enter by these steps. Pilate, Procula, Longinus, The

      Soldiers and Servants enter by the bronze doors.

      GOOD FRIDAY

      A DRAMATIC POEM

      Pilate

      Longinus

      Longinus

      Lord.

      Pilate

      [Giving scroll.] Your warrant. Take the key.

      Go to Barabbas* cell and set him free,

      The mob has chosen him.

      Longinus

      And Jesus?

      Pilate

      Wait.

      He can be scourged and put outside the gate,

      With warning not to make more trouble here.

      See that the sergeant be not too severe.

      I want to spare him.

      Longinus

      And the Jew, the Priest,

      Pilate

      Outside?

      I'll see him now.

      Longinus

      Passover

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