num_pages: 121
description: Surveys the criticism of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's (1729-1781) best known play, Nathan der Weise (1779), from the initial reception through the 19th century to the present, including Jewish and anti-semitic, philosophical, national socialist, and East German criticism. No subject index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
language: English
title: Lessing's Nathan the Wise and the Critics: 1779-1991
titlecomplete: Lessing's Nathan the Wise and the Critics: 1779-1991 (Literary Criticism in Perspective)
publisher: Camden House