This lover of Gretchen was granted unconditional service from another character for the remaining twenty-four years of his life in a pact that he signed in blood.
This character calls on Valdes and Cornelius after he is frustrated by the limits of logic, medicine, law and divinity. During Easter, this character is confused when trying to translate the first sentence of the Gospel of John, and he decides against poisoning himself after he hears church bells ring. His lover drowns their illegitimate child after this character kills her brother. This lover of Gretchen was granted unconditional service from another character for the remaining twenty-four years of his life in a pact that he signed in blood. For 10 points, name this subject of plays by Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a man who sells his soul to the devil.
This character calls on Valdes and Cornelius after he is frustrated by the limits of logic, medicine, law and divinity.
Faust [accept Doctor John Faustus or Heinrich Faust]