Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"Emilia Galotti" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is a play in five acts that premiered in 1772. This bourgeois tragedy unfolds in Italy, where an absolutist prince becomes obsessed with a virtuous young woman from the middle class on the eve of her wedding. His scheming chamberlain sets a sinister plot in motion to prevent the marriage, leading to murder, deception, and a devastating moral crisis. The play starkly contrasts aristocratic power with enlightened bourgeois morality in a gripping conflict of conscience. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781
Title Emilia Galotti
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Galotti
Credits Produced by Mike Pullen and Delphine Lettau
Reading Level Reading ease score: 87.8 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Tragedies (Drama)
Subject German drama
Category Text
EBook-No. 9108
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Sep 4, 2017
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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