Morality Play
Nicholas Barber is a 23-year-old monk in a troupe of traveling players who arrive in a small town where a mute and deaf girl awaits execution for the crime of murder. Barber and the other players go through the town, gathering the stories of this murder from the villagers, which they weave into their next performance. The dangerous truth contained in their drama arouses the attention of Lord de Guise, the local potentate, who summons them to his castle for a private performance. Unsworth`s historical novel is convincingly steeped in the sights, sounds, and smells of the middle ages.

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