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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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Morality play, Barry Unsworth
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- Morality play
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Barry Unsworth
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140175741
- ISBN13
- 9780140175745
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Theater, Murders, British Literature, English Literature, Middle Ages, Adapted for Film, Historical Mystery, Actors and Actresses, 14th Century, Priests, Traveling Theater Company
- First published
- 1995
- Original title
- Morality Play
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- 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...