New 'Nathan the Wise' Enlightens N.Y. Stage

From: Forward | Date: October 13, 1995| Author: Robert Leiter | Copyright information


Forward

10-13-1995

New `Nathan the Wise' Enlightens N.Y. Stage.

Since its first performances in the early 19th century, "Nathan the Wise" has been seen as an embodiment of those Enlightenment ideals -- tolerance, brotherhood and reason -- that helped foster Jewish emancipation in Europe. Written by a German dramatist, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, in 1779, it is set in Jerusalem and presents a portrait of a Jew that, for its era, was unusually sympathetic. For ...

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