| Miss Sara Sampson | |
| Characters: | Sir William Sampson Miss Sara, his daughter Mellefont Marwood, Mellefont's old lover Arabella, Marwood's daughter Waitwell, an old servant of Sampson Norton, servant of Mellefont Betty, maid of Sara Hannah, maid of Marwood The Innkeeper and some secondary characters. |
| Setting: | England |
| Place: | Drill hall in Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, Germany |
| Orig Lang: | German |
| Genre: | Tragedy Bourgeois tragedy |
Miss Sara Sampson (original spelling Miß Sara Sampson[1]) is a play by the Enlightenment philosopher, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Written in 1755 while the author was living in Potsdam, it is seen by many scholars to be one of the first bourgeois tragedies. In the same year it was represented at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder and was very well received. It was afterwards translated and acted in France, where it also met with success. The play was Lessing's first real success as a playwright and it was in part due to the success of this play that he was asked to be the dramaturg at the German National Theatre in Hamburg.