A Masque of Reason

A Masque of Reason is a 1945 comedy play written by Robert Frost. This short play takes the form of a sequel to or satire on the Book of Job.^[1] It presents itself as the 43rd chapter of Job, which only has 42 chapters, so providing a concluding chapter in the form of a play.^[2]

Frost's Job is unsatisfied by God's answers, and, with his wife, continues to ask questions about suffering and God's inscrutability. At one point God replies "I was just showing off to the Devil".^[1]

The image of Steeple Bush is apparent in describing the tree.^{[citation needed]}

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v t e Robert Frost
Poems	"Acquainted with the Night" "After Apple-Picking" "Birches" "The Death of the Hired Man" "The Demiurge's Laugh" "Desert Places" "Fire and Ice" "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration" "The Gift Outright" "Mending Wall" "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" "Nothing Gold Can Stay" "Out, Out—" "The Oven Bird" "A Question" "The Road Not Taken" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Poetry collections	A Boy's Will North of Boston Mountain Interval New Hampshire West-Running Brook Collected Poems of Robert Frost A Further Range A Witness Tree In the Clearing
Plays	A Masque of Reason
Related	Robert Frost Farm, New Hampshire The Frost Place, Home and Museum Robert Frost Farm (Ripton, Vermont) Robert Frost Farm (South Shaftsbury, Vermont) Robert Frost House, Massachusetts Robert Frost Medal Frostiana (1959 choral art) Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963 documentary) Robert Frost: A Life (2000 biography) John F. Kennedy, Remarks at Amherst College on the Arts

A Masque of Reason

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