The play "Nathan the Wise" premiered at Dbbelinsches Theater four years after it was published.
It was never performed during Lessing's lifetime and was first performed in 1783 at the Dobbelinsches Theater in Berlin. Nathan the Wise (original German title: Nathan der Weise, pronounced [natan de vaz (listen)) is a play published by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in 1779. 
