{"product_id":"2940013763043","title":"Lazarus Laughed","description":"In appearance Lazarus is tall and powerful, about fifty years of\u003cbr\u003eage, with a mass of gray-black hair and a heavy beard.  His face\u003cbr\u003erecalls that of a statue of a divinity of Ancient Greece in its\u003cbr\u003egeneral structure and particularly in its quality of detached\u003cbr\u003eserenity.  It is dark-complected, ruddy and brown, the color of\u003cbr\u003erich earth upturned by the plow, calm but furrowed deep with the\u003cbr\u003emarks of former suffering endured with a grim fortitude that had\u003cbr\u003enever softened into resignation.  His forehead is broad and noble,\u003cbr\u003ehis eyes black and deep-set.  Just now he is staring straight\u003cbr\u003ebefore him as if his vision were still fixed beyond life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKneeling beside him with bowed heads are his wife, Miriam, his\u003cbr\u003esisters, Martha and Mary, and his Father and Mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiriam is a slender, delicate woman of thirty-five, dressed in deep\u003cbr\u003eblack, who holds one of his hands in both of hers, and keeps her\u003cbr\u003elips pressed to it.  The upper part of her face is covered by a\u003cbr\u003emask which conceals her forehead, eyes and nose, but leaves her\u003cbr\u003emouth revealed.  The mask is the pure pallor of marble, the\u003cbr\u003eexpression that of a statue of Woman, of her eternal acceptance of\u003cbr\u003ethe compulsion of motherhood, the inevitable cycle of love into\u003cbr\u003epain into joy and new love into separation and pain again and the\u003cbr\u003eloneliness of age.  The eyes of the mask are almost closed.  Their\u003cbr\u003egaze turns within, oblivious to the life outside, as they dream\u003cbr\u003edown on the child forever in memory at her breast.  The mouth of\u003cbr\u003eMiriam is sensitive and sad, tender with an eager, understanding\u003cbr\u003esmile of self-forgetful love, the lips still fresh and young.  Her\u003cbr\u003eskin, in contrast to the mask, is sunburned and earth-colored like\u003cbr\u003ethat of Lazarus.  Martha, Mary and the two parents all wear full\u003cbr\u003emasks which broadly reproduce their own characters.  Martha is a\u003cbr\u003ebuxom middle-aged housewife, plain and pleasant.  Mary is young and\u003cbr\u003epretty, nervous and high-strung.  The Father is a small, thin,\u003cbr\u003efeeble old man of over eighty, meek and pious.  The Mother is tall\u003cbr\u003eand stout, over sixty-five, a gentle, simple woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the masks of these Jews of the first two scenes of the play are\u003cbr\u003epronouncedly Semitic.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152757670128,"sku":"2940013763043","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013763043_p0.jpg?v=1763589936","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013763043","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}