TY - BOOK AU - Lessing,Gotthold Ephraim TI - Emilia Galotti AV - PT PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Tragedies (Drama) KW - German drama N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Galotti; Release date is 2005-10-01; Produced by Mike Pullen and Delphine Lettau; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9108 ER -