For 10 points, name this play about a man who trades his soul for infinite knowledge, written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
In one scene from this work, a man goes for a walk with his assistant and is followed home by a stray poodle.. In this play, Gretchen is convicted of the murder of her illegitimate daughter, and at the end cannot be saved by her lover and the Devil, for voices of heaven announce that "she is condemned!" In this play's opening scene, Mephistopheles makes a bet that can lure the protagonist off of his righteous path. For 10 points, name this play about a man who trades his soul for infinite knowledge, written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
In one scene from this work, a man goes for a walk with his assistant and is followed home by a stray poodle..
{Faust}: The First Part of the Tragedy [do not accept “Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy”]