What drugs cure not, iron will cure;
what iron cures not, fire will cure.
(HIPPOCRATES)
KARL/ FRANZ his sons
AMALIA VON EDELREICH, his niece
SPIEGELBERG/ SCHWEITZER/ GRIMM/ RATZMANN/ SCHUFTERLE/ ROLLER/ SCHWARZ/ KOSINSKY libertines and bandits
HERRMANN, bastard son of a nobleman
DANIEL, Count Moor’s servant
PASTOR MOSER
APRIEST
ROBBERS, and others
The scene of the action is Germany;
the duration about two years.