num_pages: 188
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 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.
language: English
title: Morality Play
titlecomplete: Morality Play
characters: Martin Ball, Sir Roger of Yarm, Stephen (Morality Play), Thomas Wells, William de Guise, Nicholas Barber, Brendan (Morality Play), Lord Richard de Guise, The King's Justice, Tobias (Morality Play), Straw (Morality Play), Margaret (Morality Play), John Lambert, Jack Flint, Springer (Morality Play), Simon Damian, Jane Lambert
genres: British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Medieval, Crime
ratings_count: 3836
places: England
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Martin Beck Award
publisher: Gardners Books