Minna Von Barnhelm

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's *Minna von Barnhelm* (1767) is a five-act comedy set in the unsettled aftermath of the Seven Years' War. Its plot follows Major von Tellheim, an honorable Prussian officer impoverished and disgraced by a false accusation, and Minna, the Saxon noblewoman who loves him and ingeniously counters his wounded pride. Beneath its lively misunderstandings, reversals, and theatric...