A character in this play quips that an iron pot lifted with a silver prong would like to imagine itself as a silver vase in response to a girl’s belief that she was saved by a white-mantled angel. A treasurer urges his old chess partner to join him on a journey to the Ganges in one of this play’s scenes set in a grove of palm trees. This play’s protagonist recalls hearing Reason say “and yet, God is!” after learning that his seven sons were burnt alive. This play ends with the cast sharing a silent embrace, and opens with Daya retelling Recha’s rescue from a house fire by a knight later revealed to be her brother. In this play, an opal and two identical replicas are given to three sons in an allegory told to Saladin. For 10 points, a Jewish merchant tells the “Ring Parable” in what play about religious tolerance by Gotthold Lessing? ■END■
ANSWER: Nathan the Wise [or Nathan der Weise]
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