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Selected prose works / of G.E. Lessing ; translated from the German by E.C. Beasley and Helen Zimmern ; edited by Edward Bell.
LIBRA 838 L56.EBa
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781.
- Series:
- Bohn's standard library
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. English. 1889
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics--Early works to 1800.
- Aesthetics.
- Death in art--Early works to 1800.
- Art, Classical--Early works to 1800.
- Drama--Technique--Early works to 1800.
- Aristotle. Poetics.
- Drama--Technique.
- Art, Classical.
- Death in art.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 493 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- New edition, revised.
- Other Title:
- Lessing's prose works.
- Place of Publication:
- London : G. Bell, 1889.
- Contents:
- Laokoon
- How the ancients represented death
- Dramatic notes (Hamburg dramaturgy).
- Notes:
- Half title: Lessing's prose works.
- The translation of "Laocoon" is substantially that of E. C. Beasley, 1853, completely revised; the rest of the volume is the work of Helen Zimmern. Cf. Pref.
- OCLC:
- 63546232
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