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In Barry Unsworth's Morality Play, a runaway priest, Nicolas Barber, joins a traveling acting troupe and discovers a murder mystery in a medieval village. The troupe stages a play based on the murder of a boy named Thomas Wells, only to reveal the innocence of the accused woman and uncover the true perpetrator, a powerful local lord. The novel explores themes of art, morality, and justice against a backdrop of political corruption and societal power dynamics in the 14th century. The book includes descriptions of violence and murder.