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Minna Von Barnhelm: By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Translated For The Stage By Robert Bethune.
Minna Von Barnhelm By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Translated For The Stage By Robert Bethune Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Robert Bethune This play is a treasure known throught the German-speaking world. Since the mid-18th century, Minna has been a German ideal of a woman: beautiful, determined, clever, loving, proud, ready to take on the world for her lover and to give him his marching orders any time he needs it. It is just after the Seven Year's War; Minna, from the Austrian si... more »de, is in love with Major von Tellheim, from the Prussian side. He is beset by the requirements of honor, desperately convinced that it requires him to give up his Minna. She has no use for Prussian honor; she will teach her man a lesson. She winds up learning a lesson herself. Around this couple is a pleasant and group of characters through which Lessing gives a classic portrait of Central European personalities at a transition in modern history.« less