Miss Sara Sampson
A Tragedy in Five Acts
Miss Sara Sampson, the first of Lessing’s tragedies, was completed in the year 1755, while Lessing was at Potsdam. In the same year it was represented at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, and was very well received. It was afterwards translated and acted in France, where it also met with success.
The present is the first English translation which has appeared.