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A Play Of Heresy (2011)

by Margaret Frazer(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0425243478 (ISBN13: 9780425243473)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Berkley Trade

series

Joliffe the Player

review 1: Frazer's strength is the historical contextualizing of her medieval mysteries. This one does that well. Seventh in the Joliffe series, it is set in Coventry, England, in 1438, as Joliffe joins the preparations for the annual Corpus Christi cycle of plays, performed on carts and moved about the city to a range of staging locations, in succession. We learn quite a bit about what plays were performed, how they were probably performed, and what roles guild members and townsfolk had in this annual ritual.Joliffe is working on his own as an investigator a lot in this one, so though the familiar members of his troupe are present, they play minimal roles. For those interested in the evolution of Protestantism, the Lollard subplot is informative and helps drive the suspense for... moreward.
review 2: This medieval mystery is the first by this author that I have read, and I liked it. The main character is Joliffe, a traveling actor who is also a spy. The book centers around the religious festival of Corpus Christi in Coventry, when the various merchant guilds of the town produced plays performed on wagons that were pulled to different sites. The characters, language and clearly drawn medieval setting are effective in pulling the reader into that period of history. less

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