New essays providing a comprehensive view of the pathbreaking dramatist and theorist Lessing.

Barbara Fischer, Thomas C. Fox

Introduction: Lessing's Life and Work - Barbara Fischer and Thomas C. Fox
Lessing and the European Enlightenment - Steven D. Martinson
Lessing the Critic - Klaus L. Berghahn
Lessing and the Fable - John Pizer
Lessing's Poetics as an Approach to Aesthetics - Beate Allert
Lessing and Philosophy - H. B. Nisbet
Lessing and Theology - Arno Schilson
Lessing and the Jews - Willi Goetschel
Lessing's Drama Theory - Peter Höyng
Gender and Identity in Lessing's Dramatic Works - Karin A. Wurst
Lessing and the Third Reich - Ann Schmiesing
Lessing on the German-Speaking Stage in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, 1945-1990 - Reinhart Meyer
Lessing on the East German Stage and Screen - Thomas C. Fox and Heinz-Joachim Kertscher
200 Years of Lessing Reception - Hinrich C. Seeba
The Lessing Museum in Kamenz - Dieter Fratzke
The Lessing Academy in Wolfenbüttel - Helmut Berthold
The Lessing Society - Herbert Rowland