
Theatre· Tubingen
Nathan der Weise
# Nathan der Weise *Nathan der Weise* ("Nathan the Wise") is a play by German Enlightenment writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, published in 1779, which promotes religious tolerance through the story of Nathan, a Jewish merchant in Jerusalem during the Crusades. The play is famous for its "ring parable," in which a father gives an identical ring to each of his three sons, illustrating that Judaism, C