The first modern handbook on the dramatist's art, Dramaturgy, prepared the theater for the psychological and social realism of the 19th century. A collection of 104 articles which Lessing wrote while employed as a critic by the National Theater in Hamburg.

(Key Words: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Theater, Drama, Criticism, Germany, Voltaire, Aristotle, Euripides, Aristophanes, Dramaturgy).