For 10 points, name this language of Gotthold von Lessing, also used to write The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
A play written in this language opens with Daja telling the title character how a Christian knight heroically saved his lover Recha from a burning house. That play in this language contains a parable of a father who does not reveal to his three sons which of the rings he gives them is genuine; that parable of the Abrahamic faiths is told to Saladin by Nathan the Wise. The protagonist of an epistolary novel in this language is overcome with emotion while reading from (*) Ossian, after which he borrows a brace of pistols from Albert and uses them to commit suicide due to his unrequited love for Lotte. For 10 points, name this language of Gotthold von Lessing, also used to write The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
A play written in this language opens with Daja telling the title character how a Christian knight heroically saved his lover Recha from a burning house.
German [or Deutsch]