Winkler, Michael2016-04-222016-04-221971Canow, Kurt Alois. "Love, friendship and family in Lessing's Damon, oder die wahre Freundschaft, Minna von Barnhelm, oder des Soldatenglueck and Emilia Galotti." (1971) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/90030">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/90030</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/90030The social relationships of love, friendship and family are important themes in all of Lessing's dramas. Such abstract concepts as emotion, forgiveness, empathy, honor, harmony and virtue have a particular meaning in the later eighteenth century and do not necessarily correspond to twentieth- century social and moral outlooks. The object of this paper is to examine an early and late comedy and a late tragedy by Lessing, to show similarities and differences, and to point out some of the outlooks toward love, friendship and family -- variations of the same associative principle in the literature, of Sentimentality -- found in these dramas.112 ppengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.ThesisRICE1066reformatted digitalThesis Ger. 1971 Canow