Two Jewish Plays: The Jews / Nathan the Wise (Oberon Modern Plays)

Lessing, German writer and critic, combined the theory and practice of drama in much the same way as Shaw and Granville Barker. In these two brand new versions by award-winning translator Noel Clark, we see Lessing’s preoccupation with the egoism and venality of the rulers of the eighteenth-century petty states.