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In Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Final years at Wolfenbüttel. of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
His tragedy Emilia Galotti was performed in 1772. Written in intense and incisive prose, this brilliantly constructed play deals with a conflict of conscience at the court of an Italian prince. Lessing became involved in perhaps the most bitter controversy of his career when he also published…
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In German literature: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
In Emilia Galotti (1772), his major “bourgeois tragedy,” Lessing adapted the Roman legend of Virginia to the setting of 18th-century absolutism: a father is forced to kill his own daughter in order to protect her from seduction by an absolutist prince. This obvious indictment of a…
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