Excerpt from Selected Prose Works of G. E. Lessing Though there is no writer whose works may be more advantageously studied as a whole than Lessing's, there are

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While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that best documents