THOMAS CARLYLE, writing of German literature in the Edinburgh Review some forty years ago, exemplified the prevailing ignorance of that literature among the English in the early part ot this century ...
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s European drama, given an admirable revival at this fringe theatre, is an assured attack on unfettered princely power This 1772 tragedy by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is exactly ...
The Enlightenment-era German-language playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a controversial crusader for religious tolerance in his time. In our time, however, Nathan the Wise – his 1779 parable now ...
Search for an example of interfaith understanding in the high culture of 18 th century Prussia, and you will turn to two plays by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781). Here we see the gentile author’s ...
A statue to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, famous German poet, dramatist and critic of 150 years ago, whose essays and plays stimulated the emancipation of the German Jews, has been erected in the ...
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