Introduction: Why Lessing?
Kamenz, Meissen, Leipzig 1729-1748
Early dramas and poetry
Berlin 1748-1752: society; journalism; didactic poetry
Wittenberg and associated writings 1752-1754: history of
scholarship; philosophy; theology and religion; classical
philology; epigrams
Berlin 1752-1755: the Academy quarrel; translations and collected
Writings; social circle and the death of Mylius; Mendelssohn,
Nicolai, and other new friendships; Pope a Metaphysician!
From Comedy to Tragedy 1754-1757: the Theatrical Library; Samuel
Henzi; Miss Sara Sampson; correspondence with Mendelssohn and
Nicolai on tragedy
Leipzig and Berlin 1755-1759: travels; translations and journalism;
Kleist, Gleim and the Seven Years War; Philotas
Berlin 1758-1760: Letters on Literature; Logau edition; fables and
essays on the fable; translations of Diderot; Sophocles
The middle years: war and peace in Breslau 1760-1765
Laocoön; last years in Berlin 1765-1766
Minna von Barnhelm
Hamburg and the National Theatre
Hamburg Writings 1767-1770: Hamburg Dramaturgy; dramatic fragments;
Antiquarian Letters; How the Ancients Portrayed Death
Wolfenbüttel and Brunswick; travels in Germany, Austria and Italy;
engagement and marriage: 1770-1776
Lessing, the library and related publications: 1770-1782
Miscellaneous writings; Emilia Galotti: 1770-1775
Philosophy and theology 1770-1776; marriage and family life; the
Mannheim theatre; bereavement: 1776-1778
Reimarus, Goeze, and the theological conflict: 1776-1779
The Education of the Human Race and Ernst and Falk
Nathan the Wise
The final years 1778-1781: declining health; conversations on
Spinoza; last illness and death; memorials and monuments; Lessing's
estate
Lessing's reception: an outline
Bibliography
H. B. Nisbet is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of
Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. His main research
area is the German literature and thought of the eighteenth century
in the context of the European Enlightenment. He has written books
on Herder and Goethe and translated numerous works of Kant and
Hegel into English. He has served as Germanic and General Editor of
Modern Language Review and is joint General Editor of The
Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (nine volumes, 1989-2013).
His edition and translation of Lessing's Philosophical and
Theological Writings was published in 2005.
Nisbet's magnificent and monumental new book restores Lessing to us
in all his glorious unexpectedness ... He was, as Nisbet
triumphantly shows, a poet without boundaries and a philosopher who
knew there are truths in poetry that philosophy does not know.
*London Review of Books*
Nisbet's monograph is not only hugely comprehensive but also draws
on the most up-to-date research in order to fashion an accurate
picture of this author and his work in all phases of his life.
*Thomas Martinec, Modern Language Review*
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