Nathan the Wise - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing & Henry Morley

Nathan the Wise

By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing & Henry Morley

  • Release Date: 1781-02-15
  • Genre: Theater
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This play by eighteenth-century German philosopher and writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is set in Jerusalem during the Crusades with a theme of religious tolerance. The drama was first published in 1779; this English translation by William Taylor first appeared in 1830.

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