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Article: ART GOES IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH IN `MORALITY PLAY'.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- January 16, 1996
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Byline: JOHN BRUMFIELD
Morality Play'' is Barry Unsworth's first novel since ``Sacred Hunger,'' a highly praised meditation on the slave trade that won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize in 1992.
Set in plague-ridden 14th-century England, ``Morality Play'' is narrated by Nicholas Barber, a 23-year-old who has fled the priesthood after a tryst and joined a troupe of itinerant players.
Having been rigorously trained as a theologian, philosopher and logician, Nicholas has some initial misgivings but becomes fascinated with his new vocation and takes to it with relish.
After disappointing attendance and money-making in a town where they ...