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 ...
One of the curiosities of German literature is a spirited little pamphlet called Pope ein Metaphysiker!, which appeared anonymously in Berlin bookshops in 1755. The argument is tendentious, convoluted ...
In Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s "Nathan the Wise," now at the Lillian Theater, a bloody war ravages the Middle East. Jerusalem is the flashpoint. But the setting isn’t modern-day Israel; it’s the Third ...
Written in 1779 by the playwright and philosopher Gotthold Lessing, Nathan the Wise ranks among the most powerful arguments for religious tolerance in the entirety of the eighteenth century. Germany ...
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 ...
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