The Duke of Alva sentences to death one of this author's title characters for his support of the Netherlands against Spanish rule, while a poem by this man describes the title figure "with his crown and shroud" luring and eventually kidnapping a child as his father carries him home.
The Duke of Alva sentences to death one of this author's title characters for his support of the Netherlands against Spanish rule, while a poem by this man describes the title figure "with his crown and shroud" luring and eventually kidnapping a child as his father carries him home. This author of Egmont and "The Elf-king" also created a character who reads Ossian for Lotte before shooting himself with Albert's pistols, as well as a man who bets his life against Mephistopheles. For 10 points, name this German writer of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust.
The Duke of Alva sentences to death one of this author's title characters for his support of the Netherlands against Spanish rule, while a poem by this man describes the title figure "with his crown and shroud" luring and eventually kidnapping a child as his father carries him home.
Johann Wolfgang von {Goethe}