Above power stands the law - this is a basic idea of free democratic orders. This is how, among other things, the protected space of the private arises. But the law is abstract, bureaucratic, so the yearning for strongmen to rule by decree and thunderbolt is suddenly gaining political force again today. What does it mean? "He who respects no law is as powerful as he who has no law," observes Odoardo, whose daughter is coveted by the prince of the land. Emilia, however, has long since been promised to Count Appiani. To ensure that the beauty will go to his master instead, the politician Marinelli has Appiani killed and Emilia kidnapped on the day of the wedding. Power takes what it wants. What is left to Odoardo, what to Emilia? Lessing's tragedy explores the intrusion of arbitrariness into the private sphere.
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