James Armstrong, Playwright

I’ve been in the United Kingdom for the 2024 conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies in Glasgow.   The conference kicked...

I recently wrote a post about beginning a translation of Nathan the Wise by G.E. Lessing. That's not the only German play I've trie...

I've previously blogged about Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan the Wise , one of the most famous dramas to come out of the Ger...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is known for his Enlightenment-era dramas, including Nathan the Wise , Minna von Barnhelm , and Miss Sara Sampson ....

Like a number of people enduring the quarantine of the present plague , I've been working my way through reading The Decameron by Giova...

In 1779, the German playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing published his last play, Nathan the Wise . A towering figure of t...

In Germany, the Enlightenment was known as the "Aufklärung" which translates roughly to the "clearing up of things." Si...