Bücher von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

G.E. Lessing (1729-81) wrote three plays in addition to Nathan the Wise (1779): Miss Sara Sampson (1755), based on the novels of Samuel Richardson and revived at the National Theatre, London, by Declan Donnellan; Minna von Barnhelm (1767), the first German comedy, and Emilia Galotti (1772), a 'Middle-class tragedy'. Edward Kemp is a writer, director and literary manager at Chichester Festival Theatre. Other work includes a two-part adaptation of The Mysteries for the RSC, published by NHB and a new play about the Gunpowder Plot, 5/11, premiered at Chichester in August 2005.