Good Friday: A Play in Verse is a 1914 work by English poet John Masefield, first published in The Fortnightly Review in December 1915. Good Friday and Other Poems was published in New York in 1916 by The Macmillan Company and 1917 Heinemann, London. As to the success he achieves in attempting to deal with so tremendous a theme as that of his dramatic poem, Good Friday, there may well be a difference of opinion - North American Review April 1916 Setting the scene following the crucifixion of Jesus in Good Friday, Masefield directs that Pilate should enter "as the darkness reddens to a glare."