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Nathan the Wise
Descripción editorial
This play by eighteenth-century German philosopher and writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is set in Jerusalem during the Crusades with a theme of religious tolerance. The drama was first published in 1779; this English translation by William Taylor first appeared in 1830.