The owners of the new Hamburg National Theatre hired Lessing as the theatre's critic of plays and acting, an activity later known as dramaturgy (based on his own words), making Lessing …

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German dramatist, critic, and writer on philosophy and aesthetics. He helped free German drama from the influence of classical and French models …

Lessing was a poet, philosopher and critic, and was an outstanding representative of the German Enlightenment. His theoretical and critical writings are remarkable for their often witty and …

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing occupies a central place in eighteenth-century European belles-lettres. He was a significant religious and theological thinker whose work puzzled his contemporaries …

Lessing's writings on art and literature do not constitute a serious analysis and critique of aesthetic experience. But his work was directed toward liberating the artist from all the limiting …

In his dramatic poem Nathan the Wise (1779), Lessing presented his vision of a religious truth based on justice, reason, and charity. Lessing modeled the title character on his lifelong friend …

Apr 28, 2017 · Lessing worked in many spheres: literature and literary criticism, theology and philosophy, criticism, journalism, and translation. Despite the magnitude and versatility of his …

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 in Kamenz (Saxony) – 15 February 1781 in Braunschweig) was a German poet and philosopher in the time of the enlightenment.

Lessing advocated the outline of drama in Aristotle's Poetics. He believed the French Academy had devalued the uses of drama through their neoclassical rules of form and separation of …

Born in 1729 to a Protestant minister, he initially pursued theology but quickly shifted his focus to literature and theater. Lessing achieved early success with his comedic plays but made …