Early comedies like The Free Thinker and The Old Maid did not convey what he truly desired as is reflected in his "Correspondence about Tragedy" to his friends Friedrich Nicolai and Moses Mendelssohn.
The first section of Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript is dedicated to this author. Early comedies like The Free Thinker and The Old Maid did not convey what he truly desired as is reflected in his "Correspondence about Tragedy" to his friends Friedrich Nicolai and Moses Mendelssohn. The influence of George Farquhar and Samuel Richardson can be clearly seen in later works like the comedy Minna von Barnhelm and the tragedy Miss Sara Sampson. FTP, identify this 18th century German dramatist best known for the treatise Laokoon and the play Nathan der Weise.
The first section of Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript is dedicated to this author.
Gotthold {Lessing}