Miss Sara Sampson
Miss Sara Sampson | |
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Written by | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
Characters | Sir William Sampson Miss Sara, his daughter Mellefont Marwood, Mellefont's old lover Arabella, Marwood's daughter Waitwell, an old servant of Sampson Norton, servant of Mellefont Betty, maid of Sara Hannah, maid of Marwood The Innkeeper and some secondary characters. |
Date premiered | 10 July 1755 |
Place premiered | Drill hall in Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, Germany |
Original language | German |
Genre | Tragedy Bourgeois tragedy |
Setting | England |
Miss Sara Sampson (original spelling Miß Sara Sampsondramaturg at the German National Theatre in Hamburg.
See also
Notes
- Dramatis personæ, though the spelling "Miss" now has wide currency in German
External links
- Miss Sara Sampson, full translation by Ernest Bell online.
- Miss Sara Sampson public domain audiobook at LibriVox