Nathan the Wise
By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing & Henry Morley
- Release Date: 1781-02-15
- Genre: Theater
Description
This play by eighteenth-century German philosopher and writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is set in Jerusalem during the Crusades with a theme of religious tolerance. The drama was first published in 1779; this English translation by William Taylor first appeared in 1830.