按语
    戈特霍尔德埃夫莱姆莱卡门茨出生于德国，1729年1月22日，一个路德会牧师的儿子。他曾在迈森和Leipzic，并开始为舞台写作之前，他20岁。在1748年他前往柏林，在那里他遇到了伏尔泰和今后一个时期是由他有力的影响。这一时期最重要的产品是他的“小姐萨拉参孙悲剧”美狄亚的一个，它开始了多愁善感的中产阶级在德国播放流行故事的现代版。经过在Leipzic第二逗留（1755年至1758年），在这期间他写的批评，歌词，寓言，莱辛返回柏林，开始发表他的“文学书简，”造法的活力和他的坦率批评自己的真正力量在当代文学。从柏林，他到布雷斯劳，在那里他与他最大的两个第一素描作品，“拉奥孔”和“米娜冯Barnhelm，”两者都是发出后，他回到普鲁士首都。在他的努力未能被任命弗雷德里克大帝，莱辛的皇家图书馆馆长于1767年前往汉堡，作为一个新的国家戏剧评论家，在他与这家企业发出每周两次的“汉堡Dramaturgie，”两个连接其中一册的戏剧批评和理论富矿。
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    INTRODUCTORY NOTE
    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born at Kamenz, Germany, January 22, 1729, the son of a Lutheran minister. He was educated at Meissen and Leipzic, and began writing for the stage before he was twenty. In 1748 he went to Berlin, where he met Voltaire and for a time was powerfully influenced by him. The most important product of this period was his tragedy of "Miss Sara Samson," a modern version of the story of Medea, which began the vogue of the sentimental middle-class play in Germany. After a second sojourn in Leipzic (1755-1758), during which he wrote criticism, lyrics, and fables, Lessing returned to Berlin and began to publish his "Literary Letters," making himself by the vigor and candor of his criticism a real force in contemporary literature. From Berlin he went to Breslau, where he made the first sketches of two of his greatest works, "Laocoon" and "Minna von Barnhelm," both of which were issued after his return to the Prussian capital. Failing in his effort to be appointed Director of the Royal Library by Frederick the Great, Lessing went to Hamburg in 1767 as critic of a new national theatre, and in connection with this enterprise he issued twice a week the "Hamburgische Dramaturgie," the two volumes of which are a rich mine of dramatic criticism and theory.