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 ...

The remarkable fact about "Nathan the Wise" is not the quality of the play itself, but that such a play could have been written at all in the late 1700s. Gotthold Lessing's ahead-of-its-time plea for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NATHAN THE WISE by Gotthold Lessing, directed by Tim Albery, with William Webster, Cara Pifko, Andrew Moodie, Karen Robinson, Dusan Dukic, Barbara Gordon, Derek Boyes, David Calderisi and Vik Sahay.