Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Anyone who peruses the standard twenty-three volume set of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s writings, Sämtliche Schriften (1886-1924), edited by Karl Lachmann and Franz Muncker, will readily see that plays are a very small part of Lessing’s total literary output. Although Lessing worked in such diverse genres as the epigram, fable, and anacreontic verse, his most important nondramatic writings are to be found in the areas of art criticism, literary criticism, and theological studies. Most notable of his contributions to art criticism are Briefe...
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