The Devil and the Good Lord - and two other plays: Kean and Nekrassov

Jean-Paul Sartre

Knopf

1960

458 páginas

15h 16m

ISBN-1: 0

The play concerns the moral choices of its characters, warlord Goetz, clergy Heinrich, communist leader Nasti and others during the German Peasants' War. The first act follows Goetz' transformation from vicious war criminal to a "good" person of noble deeds, as during a siege of the town of Worms, he decides not to massacre its citizens