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Morality Play

Morality Play

Author(s): Barry Unsworth

Location(s): England

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Late 14th Century

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It is the late fourteenth century, a dangerous time beset by war and plague. Nicholas Barber, a young and wayward cleric, stumbles across a group of travelling players and compounds his sins by joining them. Yet the town where they perform reveals another drama: a young woman is to be hanged for the murder of a twelve-year-old boy. What better way to increase their takings than to make a new play, to enact the murder of Thomas Wells? But as the actors rehearse, they discover that the truth about the boy’s death has yet to be revealed…

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The book takes place in England in the later Middle Age – a group of traveling actors stop on their way to Durham at a small village to perform a morality play. Nicholas Barber,...

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