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A short morality play stages a humble household workshop where daily labor and simple domestic moments are interwoven with readings of prophetic text and a child’s visionary response. Practical tasks of carpentry and spinning are juxtaposed with reflections on obscured formative years, suffering, and redemption, while symbolic gestures — shaping a door, handling wood — mirror spiritual formation. The piece treats ordinary work as sacrament, examining how love, community, and small acts shape human character and prepare for larger destiny, and closes as a contemplative appeal to live faith in everyday life rather than only in exalted moments.

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Title: Nazareth: a morality in one act

Author: Laurence Housman

Release date: December 26, 2022 [eBook #69644]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Samuel French, Ltd, 1916

Credits: Charlene Taylor, Carla Foust and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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Nazareth: a Morality in One Act: by Laurence Housman

Samuel French: Publisher

28-30 West Thirty-eighth Street: New York

LONDON

Samuel French, Ltd.

26 Southampton Street, Strand

Copyright, 1916
By LAURENCE HOUSMAN

CAUTION.—Amateurs and Professionals are hereby warned that “NAZARETH,” being fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States, is subject to royalty, and any one presenting the play without the consent of the author or his authorized agent, will be liable to the penalties by law provided. Application for the right to produce “NAZARETH” must be made to Samuel French, 28-30 West 38th Street, New York City.

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