title: Lazarus Finds: A comedic tale of death and redemption
author:  Tim Megaw 
description: Tim Megaw is a former television writer, producer, director and executive. He has travelled and worked all over the world but currently lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania though he maintains strong links with his childhood home of Thornhill, Ontario and maintains a home in London. He is married to Erica and they have three children Jack, Lily and Louisa.
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  # Lazarus
  
  
  ### Emile Zola
  
  
  ##### translated by Frank J. Morlock.
  
  
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  LAZARUS
  
  
  (lyric drama in one act)
  
  
  by Emile Zola (1894)
  
  
  
  
  
  translated and adapted
  
  
  by Frank J. Morlock
  
  
  c 2002
  
  
  A deep and savage grotto. To the 