Poets and Kings
\V HEN learning history at school, we rejoiced in our childish way at the defeat of the Armada without wondering greatly how the Spaniards felt about it. But poets are different. John Masefield’s "Philip the King" (4YZ) was a gloomy play, unrelieved by any touch of humour or cheerfulness, but somehow gripping in its very despondency. Masefield’s Philip, a prey to visions of despair and the sport of ghostly creations of his own wild imagining, waits for news of the great fleet. Rumour .cruelly brings news of victory, but among the shouts and the bells the
King remains unmoved, as though anticipating the shattering horror that came. This was an NBS production, and although the players were not named, they performed something of a feat in compelling the listener to wait for the inevitable end of a play whose theme, though moving, was not exactly a cheerful subject for this year of war, 1945.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 292, 26 January 1945, Page 6
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157Poets and Kings New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 292, 26 January 1945, Page 6
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