#btw i think the line in marlowe absolutely is meant to be a reference

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Dorothy Sayers' The Devil to Pay does this and while the first three acts I kind of have mixed feelings about, the final one just wrecks me: Faustus, having been reverted to a state of primal ignorance by his deal with Mephistopheles, is given the choice to either remain in limbo in complete innocent content but to never know God, or to fulfill his bargain and go to hell but retain his knowledge. Here's the section where he makes his choice:

(seriously. Absolutely wrecks me)

Thinking about the Protestant Reformation, the shift from Catholicism to Protestantism, and Protestantism not having purgatory. Thinking about "Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, / A hundred thousand, and at last be saved. / O, no end is limited to damned souls!" about his wish to be purified by punishment, in a way, and eventually be saved. Thinking about other versions of Faust where he gets sent to purgatory instead.