by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · tapa dura · ISBN 9782742704552
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«Nathan le Sage» is the play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, published by Actes Sud-Papiers in hardback (120 pages, in French).
A play in five acts set in Jerusalem during the Crusades: Nathan, a wise Jew, Sultan Saladin and a Templar meet alongside Recha, the former's adopted daughter. The parable of the three rings defends tolerance among the three monotheistic religions and places value in action, not in the supremacy of one faith.
French translation by Denis Marleau and Marie-Elisabeth Morf. Published in 1997 in the Papiers collection; the German original 'Nathan der Weise' dates from 1779.
For readers of classical theatre and Enlightenment philosophy, as well as for students working on the theme of religious tolerance.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic. He was a representative of the Enlightenment. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg in his role at Abel Seyler's Hamburg National Theatre. The word "dramaturgy" first appears in his work Hamburg Dramaturgy.
