Play on Words

full length · drama

Minna Von Barnhelm

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · translated by Ernest Bell

11 roles (0M / 0F / 11 any) · approx 147–203 minutes · 5 acts

Royalty-free Public domain — free to read, perform, and adapt. No licence needed.

Characters

Maj. T lead 264 speeches
Min lead 251 speeches
Fran lead 197 speeches
Just supporting 126 speeches
Wer supporting 121 speeches
Land supporting 108 speeches
Ric minor 33 speeches
Lady minor 12 speeches
Ser minor 8 speeches
Count minor 8 speeches
Ord minor 4 speeches

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Major von Tellheim

Maj. T. How do I feel!... My whole soul has acquired a new impulse. My own unhappiness bowed me to the ground; made me fretful, short-sighted, shy, careless: her unhappiness raises me. I see clearly again, and feel myself ready and capable of undertaking anything for her sake. Why do I tarry? (Is going towards Minna's room, when Franziska comes out of it.)

Monologues from this play