At the close of the Seven Years’ War, Major von Tellheim is lodged in a Berlin inn, dismissed, wounded, suspected of dishonesty and too proud to accept help even from his faithful old sergeant Werner. When his fiancée Minna von Barnhelm arrives, he refuses to marry her in his disgrace, and she sets out to outwit his honour with a trick of her own.
The first great German comedy, still staged, here in Ernest Bell’s English translation. Download the free EPUB.