John Masefield Collected Plays, Vol 2 of 1920 Poems and Plays, Poet Laureate U.K

Description: John Masefield. The Poems and Plays of John Masefield, Volume Two: Plays. New York: MacMillan, 1920. Second Edition; pp ix, 640; 7-3/4 by 5-1/2 inches; publisher's blue cloth with gilt to the spine and blind stamped design to the front. From Wikipedia: John Edward Masefield OM (1878 – 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and the poems The Everlasting Mercy and "Sea-Fever".... Between 1924 and 1939 he published 12 novels, which vary from stories of the sea (The Bird of Dawning, Victorious Troy) to social novels about modern England (The Hawbucks, The Square Peg), and from tales of an imaginary land in Central America (Sard Harker, Odtaa) to fantasies for children (The Midnight Folk, The Box of Delights). In this same period he wrote a large number of dramatic pieces. Most of these were based on Christian themes, and Masefield, to his amazement, 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. Please see the pictures for more information and detail as to contents and condition.

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