"A Laurel Worthy of Virtue: A Drama Played on the Stage of the Salitre Theater" is a work by the famous Portuguese poet and playwright Manuel Maria Barbosa do Bocaj. This drama reveals to the reader the majestic and disturbing pages of human life through the prism of internal struggles with moral issues, ambition and justice. The author successfully combines realism and symbolism to draw attention to eternal values and complex interdependencies between feelings and morality. "A Laurel Worthy of Virtue" is a work that makes you think deeply about the essence of the human soul and the ways to choose between good and evil.