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 ...
3 John Patrick Hayden, Will Roland and More to Lead Bucks County Playhouse's New Masterclass Series NATHAN THE WISE (German title Nathan der Weise) is a plea for religious tolerance. Lessing completed ...
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 ...
IT was the late 18th-century German playwright Gotthold Lessing who accidentally stumbled on to a human phenomenon that came to be known two centuries later as the Peter Principle. In one of Lessing’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 ...
Written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Directed by Michael Thalheimer Starring Regine Zimmermann, Sven Lehmann Produced by Deutsches Theatre Berlin Presented by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival At the ...