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Unsworth, Barry
by Morality Play
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0385479530
- ISBN 13
- 9780385479530
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About This Item
New York. 1995. November 1995. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0385479530. 207 pages. hardcover. Jacket art from Bettmann Archive. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Nicholas Barber is a twenty-three-year-old priest who, fearing the wrath of the bishop for breaking his vows of chastity, takes up with a troupe of traveling players. Coming to a small town in the middle of winter, the troupe puts on their usual morality play but gets caught up in a drama of a different kind: a murder has taken place, and a mute-and-deaf girl stands condemned, awaiting execution. Seeing an opportunity to attract a larger audience than ever, the players go through the town collecting information about the murder, which they weave into their next performance. As they perform, the story takes on a life of its own. Soon they learn that their drama is far closer to the dangerous truth than they originally imagined - and they are summoned to perform for the local potentate, the powerful Lord de Guise, who has his own reasons to be interested in their version of events. Bringing fourteenth-century England to vibrant life, Barry Unsworth deftly shows us a time that is far off yet strangely familiar, where underneath medieval trappings lie the same corruption and moral dilemmas we face today. inventory #23992 ISBN: 0385479530.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23992
- Title
- Unsworth, Barry
- Author
- Morality Play
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385479530
- ISBN 13
- 9780385479530
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1995
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