Search results
Morality Play is a semi-historical detective novel by Barry Unsworth. The book, published in 1995 by Hamish Hamilton was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Jan 1, 2001 · 3.76. 3,988ratings433reviews. The national bestseller: A medieval murder mystery full of the wonders of the time―and lessons for our own time―by a master storyteller. The time is the fourteenth century. The place is a small town in rural England, and the setting a snow-laden winter.
- (4K)
- Paperback
People also ask
What is the morality play by Barry Unsworth about?
What is morality play?
Is 'morality play' a good read?
Is morality play creepy?
Sep 17, 1996 · A small troupe of actors accompanied by Nicholas Barber, a young renegade priest, prepare to play the drama of their lives. Breaking the longstanding tradition of only performing religious plays, the groups leader, Martin, wants them to enact the murder that is foremost in the townspeoples minds.
- (319)
- Paperback
- Barry Unsworth
Oct 1, 1995 · One bleak December day, young Nicholas Barber, a fugitive priest who has impulsively decamped from Lincoln Cathedral, comes upon a small band of traveling players who are burying one of their crew. He pleads to join them, despite the fact that playing on a public stage is expressly forbidden to clergy.
- (332)
- Barry Unsworth
Aug 29, 2017 · Set in late Medieval England, Barry Unsworth's atmospheric 'Morality Play' focuses on a young priest who, one bitterly cold winter's day, comes across a group of travelling players, one of whose number has just died.
- (319)
About Morality Play. A New York Times Notable Book In medieval England, a runaway scholar-priest named Nicholas Barber has joined a traveling theater troupe as they make their way toward their liege lord’s castle. In need of money, they decide to perform at a village en route.
Aug 29, 2017 · Morality Play. Barry Unsworth. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 29, 2017 - Fiction - 208 pages. A New York Times Notable Book. In medieval England, a runaway scholar-priest named...
