# Morality Play

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- Book: [Morality Play](https://www.bookquiver.com/barry-unsworth/morality-play) ([Morality Play.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/barry-unsworth/morality-play.md))
- Authors: [Barry Unsworth](https://www.bookquiver.com/barry-unsworth)
- Publisher: cornerstone_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7351-842-1
- Published: 2014-08-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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...