Lessing's Nathan the Wise from written in 1779. The setting is Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades. The themes include; anti Semitism, wealth, love and duty, and the nature of God. This is an excellent study volume for college students

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. Today his works appear as prototypes of the later developed bourgeois German drama. "Miss Sara Sampson" and "Emilia Galotti" are seen as the first bourgeois tragedies, "Minna von Barnhelm" as the model for many classic German comedies.

Nathan the Wise (originally written in German) is a play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. It is a plea for religious tolerance, and its performance was forbidden by the church during Lessing's lifetime and later by the Nazis.

La superioridad de la poesia sobre la pintura y la escultura. Edicion y notas por el celebre critico literario JUAN BAUTISTA BERGUA. Traduccion al espanol por Javier Merino. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) fue el dramaturgo y ensayista aleman mas importante de la ilustracion y de la literatura alemana. Su obra mas notable, Laocoonte (Laokoon, Laocoon, o Limites de la Pintura y de la Poesia, 1766), trata sobre los principios esteticos y teoricos de la literatura. Ha sido un manantial fecundo para todos los que desde entonces han hablado de poesia, pintura o escultura. En este analisis,...