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Good Friday - a play in verse
by Masefield, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine, 1st edition, Original blue cloth, printed paper labels to spine and front board, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Wi
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Lollingdon, Berkshire: John Masefield, 1916. 1st. hardback. Near Fine, 1st edition, Original blue cloth, printed paper labels to spine and front board, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. With the plain paper dust jacket. Afew pale markings to boards. An excellent copy in the the dust jacket.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Masefield wrote a number of poetic dramas on Christian themes (of which Good Friday was the first); but to his amazement, he encountered a ban on the performance of plays on biblical subjects that went back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of Oscar Wilde's Salome. However, a compromise was reached and in 1928 his ""The Coming of Christ"" was the first play to be performed in an English cathedral since the Middle Ages. Good Friday was self-published in the UK during the First World War, in 1916 (having first appeared in The Fortnightly Review in 1915). The first edition in book-form was published in 1916 by Macmillan, New York with the title ÒGood Friday. A Dramatic PoemÓ, the author having been sent to the United States Òunder government auspices to help explain the British war effortÓ (ODNB).
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC107003
- Title
- Good Friday - a play in verse
- Author
- Masefield, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine, 1st edition, Original blue cloth, printed paper labels to spine and front board, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Wi
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Masefield
- Place of Publication
- Lollingdon, Berkshire
- Date Published
- 1916
- Pages
- 77
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, drama, poetry, Masefield, Poet Laureate
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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Inklings & Yarnspinners
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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