Nathan the Wise
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781
- Title
- Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1893 Cassell & Company edition by David Price
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
- Subject
- German drama -- Translations into English
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 3820
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3820
- Release Date
- March 1, 2003
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.NATHAN THE WISE A Dramatic Poem in Five Acts — INTRODUCTION
- 2.Nathan the Wise . — DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. — ACT I. — Scene .—A Place of Palms. — ACT II. — Scene .—The Place of Palms, close to Nathan’s House. — ACT III. — Scene .—A Room in Nathan’s House. — Scene .—An Audience Room in the Sultan’s Palace. — Scene .—The Place of Palms. — ACT IV. — Scene .—The Cloister of a Convent. — Scene .—A Room in the Palace. — SCENE.—The Hall in Nathan’s House, as in the first scene; the things there mentioned unpacked and displayed. — ACT V. — Scene .—A Room in the Palace; the Purses still in a pile. — SCENE—A Place of Palms. — Scene .—The Sultan’s Palace. A Room in Sittah’s Apartment.
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