A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Barbara Fischer (Editor), Thomas C. Fox (Editor)
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571132430
Edition: Hardcover; 2005-04-15
Summary:
One of the most independent thinkers in German intellectual history,
the Enlightenment author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
contributed in decisive and lasting fashion to literature,
philosophy, theology, criticism, and drama theory. Lessing invented
the brgerliches Trauerspiel (bourgeois tragedy) and wrote one of the
first successful German tragedies as well as one of the finest German
comedies. In his final dramatic masterpiece, Nathan der Weise, he
writes of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, of religious tolerance
and intolerance and the clash of civilizations. Lessing's dramas are
the oldest German theater pieces still regularly performed (both in
Germany and internationally), and both his plays and his drama theory
have influenced such writers as Goethe, Schiller, Hebbel, Hauptmann,
Ibsen, Strindberg, Schnitzler, and Brecht. Addressing an audience
ranging from graduate students to seasoned scholars, this volume
introduces Lessing's life and times and places him within the broader
context of the European Enlightenment. It discusses his pathbreaking
dramas, his equally revolutionary theoretical, critical, and
aesthetic writings, his original fables, his innovative work in
philosophy and theology, and his significant contributions to Jewish
emancipation. The volume concludes by examining 20th-century
reception of Lessing and his oeuvre. Contributors: Thomas Fox,
Barbara Fischer, Steven D. Martinson, Klaus L. Berghahn, John Pizer,
Beate Allert, H. B. Nisbet, Arno Schilson, Willi Goetschel, Peter
Hyng, Karin A. Wurst, Ann Schmiesing, Reinhart Meyer, Hans-Joachim
Kertscher, Hinrich C. Seeba, Dieter Fratzke, Helmut Berthold, Herbert
Rowland. Thomas Fox is professor of German and Barbara Fischer is
assistant professor of German, both at the University of Alabama.
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