The Devil and the Good Lord

The Devil and the Good Lord
The French edition
Written by	Jean-Paul Sartre
Date premiered	7 June 1951 (1951-06-07)
Place premiered	Théâtre-Antoine, Paris
Original language	French

The Devil and the Good Lord (French: Le Diable et le Bon Dieu) is a 1951 play by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. 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.

The play was first performed at the Théâtre-Antoine in Paris, where it opened on 7 June 1951 and ran until March 1952.^[1] This production was directed by Louis Jouvet.^[1] Of all his dramatic writings, The Devil and the Good Lord was Sartre's favourite.^[1] He based the character of Goetz on his analysis of the psychology and morality of the writer Jean Genet, which he had developed more substantially in his Saint Genet (1952).^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 White (1993, 455).

Sources

White, Edmund. 1993. Genet. Corrected edition. London: Picador, 1994. ISBN 0-330-30622-7.

Works by Jean-Paul Sartre

Novels and short stories	Nausea (1938) The Wall (1939) The Roads to Freedom The Age of Reason (1945) The Reprieve (1945) Troubled Sleep (1949) In the Mesh (1948) Intimacy (1949) Hurricane over Cuba (1961)

Plays and screenplays	Bariona (1940) The Flies (1943) No Exit (1944) Morts sans sépulture (1945) The Respectful Prostitute (1946) The Chips Are Down (1947) Dirty Hands (1948) The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) Kean (1953) Nekrassov (1955) The Condemned of Altona (1959) The Trojan Woman (1965) The Freud Scenario (1984)

Philosophical essays	"Imagination: A Psychological Critique" (1936) "The Transcendence of the Ego" (1936) "Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions" (1939) "The Imaginary" (1940) Being and Nothingness (1943) Existentialism and Humanism (1946) "Search for a Method" (1957) "Critique of Dialectical Reason" (1960, 1985) "Notebooks for an Ethics" (1983) "Truth and Existence" (1989)

Critical essays	"Anti-Semite and Jew" (1946) "Situations I - X (1947–1976) "Black Orpheus" (1948) "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr" (1952) "The Henri Martin Affair" (1953) "The Family Idiot" (1971–2)

Autobiographical	Sartre by Himself (1959) The Words (1964) Witness to My Life & Quiet Moments in a War (1983) War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War (1984)

Related topics	Authenticity Bad faith (mauvaise foi) Existence precedes essence

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