His works on aesthetics includes Letters Concerning the Most Recent Literature, a periodical written with Christoph Nicolai, and a treatise on How the Ancients Represented Death.  While a student at Leipzig he wrote a play about "true friendship," Damon, and went on to churn out comic dramas like The Misogynist and The Free Thinker.  He expressed hope in the perfectibility of human nature in his last major work, 1780's The Education of the Human Race, while he wrote about the "limits of painting and poetry" in his best-known philosophical work.  However, he was most admired in his own time for his plays, which include one about a character who courts Major von Tellheim and another about Miss Sara Sampson.  FTP, name
His works on aesthetics includes Letters Concerning the Most Recent Literature, a periodical written with Christoph Nicolai, and a treatise on How the Ancients Represented Death.  While a student at Leipzig he wrote a play about "true friendship," Damon, and went on to churn out comic dramas like The Misogynist and The Free Thinker.  He expressed hope in the perfectibility of human nature in his last major work, 1780's The Education of the Human Race, while he wrote about the "limits of painting and poetry" in his best-known philosophical work.  However, he was most admired in his own time for his plays, which include one about a character who courts Major von Tellheim and another about Miss Sara Sampson.  FTP, name this German writer of Minna von Barnhelm, Laocoon and Nathan the Wise.
His works on aesthetics includes Letters Concerning the Most Recent Literature, a periodical written with Christoph Nicolai, and a treatise on How the Ancients Represented Death.  
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing