Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim,  1729-1781 <br/><br/>
Emilia Galotti 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Galotti  Release date is 2005-10-01 
<br/><br/>Produced by Mike Pullen and Delphine Lettau  Produced by Mike Pullen and Delphine Lettau 
<br/><br/> "Emilia Galotti" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is a play in five acts that premiered in 1772. This bourgeois tragedy unfolds in Italy, where an absolutist prince becomes obsessed with a virtuous young woman from the middle class on the eve of her wedding. His scheming chamberlain sets a sinister plot in motion to prevent the marriage, leading to murder, deception, and a devastating moral crisis. The play starkly contrasts aristocratic power with enlightened bourgeois morality in a gripping conflict of conscience. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Tragedies (Drama) German drama 
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