Works based on Faust

Faust has inspired artistic and cultural works for over four centuries. The following lists cover various media to include items of historic interest, enduring works of high art, and recent representations in popular culture. The entries represent works that a reader has a reasonable chance of encountering rather than a complete catalog.

Drama

• Jacob Bidermann's Cenodoxus (1602)
• Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (A-text 1604, B-text 1616)
• William Mountfort's The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, made into a farce (1697)
• John Rich's The Necromancer, or Harlequin Dr. Faustus (1723)
• John Thurmond's Harlequin Doctor Faustus (1723) and The Miser, or Wagner and Abericock (1726)
• Gotthold Lessing's play, Doktor Faust, mentioned in a contribution to a magazine (1759), but otherwise left unfinished and collected and published posthumously (1784) in its original, incomplete form
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1806-1832)
• George Gordon, Lord Byron's Manfred (1817)
• Christian Dietrich Grabbe's Don Juan und Faust (1829)
• Nikolaus Lenau's Faust (1836)
• George Sand's Les Sept Cordes de la Lyre (1838)
• H. J. Byron's Little Doctor Faust (1877) (a musical burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre)
• Michel de Ghelderode's La Mort du Docteur Faust (1925)
• Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
• Paul Valery's Mon Faust (unfinished 1940)
• Fernando Pessoa's Fausto Tragédia Subjectiva (Faust Subjective Tragedy)
• Václav Havel's Temptation (play) (1986)
• Todd Alcott's Jane Faust (1995)
• David M. Nevarrez's The Damnable Doctor Faustus (1995-1998)
• John Jesurun's Faust/How I Rose (1996)
• Michael D'Antonio's Faust in Vitro (1997)
• Christopher Durang's "Don Juan in Chicago" (1995)
• La Fura dels Baus's Faust: Version 3.0 (1998)
• David Mamet's Faustus (2004)
• Punchdrunk's Faust in Promenade (2006-2007)
• George Axelrod's Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)

Opera

• Louis Spohr's Faust (1816)
• Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust (1846)
• Charles Gounod's Faust (1859)
• Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868)
• Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust (1916-25)
• Sergei Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel (1927; first performed 1954)
• Henri Pousseur (music) and Michel Butor (libretto), Votre Faust (1961-68), and related "satellite" works
• Konrad Boehmer's Doktor Faustus (1983), libretto by Hugo Claus
• Alfred Schnittke's Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
• The broadway musical Damn Yankees
• John Coolidge Adams' Doctor Atomic (2005)
• Pascal Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night (2006)
• Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951)
• Meyer Lutz's romantic opera Faust and Marguerite and his burlesque Faust up to date (1888)

Classical Music

• Pablo de Sarasate's "Faust Fantasy"
• Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 75 no 3 (1809) Song — Aus Goethes Faust: "Es war einmal ein König"
• Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814)
• Richard Wagner's Faust Overture (1840)
• Hector Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (1845-46) (sometimes performed in staged opera versions)
• Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust (completed 1853)
• Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony (1854-57) and Mephisto Waltzes
• Modest Mussorgsky: "Mephistopheles' song of the flea" (1879), is just that: a version of the song that Mephistopheles sings in the tavern scene of Goethe's Faust, pt. 1.
• Gustav Mahler's Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906-07)
• Julius Röntgen's Aus Goethes Faust (1931)
• Alfred Schnittke's Faust Cantata (1982-83)
• Randy Newman's Faust (1993)

Ballet

• Faust (ballet) by Jules Perrot (1848)

Contemporary Music

• Kamelot's Epica Saga ('Epica' and 'The Black Halo')
• The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night
• Switchfoot's 'Faust, Midas and Myself' (2006
• Cradle of Filth's 'Absinthe With Faust' song (from the album Nymphetamine)
• Little Tragedies' New Faust (2003).
• Akercocke (certain songs)
• Radiohead's "Faust ARP" & "Videotape" (from the album In Rainbows)
• Tenacious D's "Pick of Destiny" (entire album)
• Muse's The Small Print(from the album Absolution
• Current 93's Faust, based on a story by Count Eric Stenbock.
• Frank Zappa's Titties & Beer. 'Live in New York'

Poetry

• D.J. Enright's "A Faust Book" (1975)
• Carol Ann Duffy's "Mrs Faust"
• Charles Baudelaire's "Châtiment De L`Orgueil (Punishment of Pride)"
• Karl Shapiro's "The Progress of Faust"
• David M. Nevarrez's "Death Dreams of Dr. Faustus"
• J. M. R. Lenz's "Die Hollenrichter" (unfinished)
• Matthew Hong's "I, Faust" (Aria Press, 2007)
• Hart Crane's "Of the Marriage of Faustus and Helen"

Prose fiction

• F. M. von Klinger's Fausts Leben, Thaten und Hollenfahrt (1791)
• Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
• Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)
• G. W. M. Reynolds' Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals and Wagner, the Wehr-wolf (both 1847)
• Ivan Turgenev's Faust (1855)
• Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
• Samuel Adams Drake's Jonathan Moulton and the Devil (1884)
• Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
• Peadar Ua Laoghaire's Séadna (Written in Muskerry Gaelic, serialised in the 1890s)
• Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
• Alfred Jarry's Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician (1898)
• Valery Bryusov's The Fiery Angel (1908)
• Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera (1909-'10)
• Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1929-'40)
• Klaus Mann's Mephisto (1936)
• Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
• Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus (1947)
• Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
• William Gaddis's The Recognitions (1955)
• Roger Zelazny's For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
• John Hersey's Too Far to Walk (1966)
• Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer (1969)
• John Banville's Mefisto (1986)
• Clive Barker's The Damnation Game (1986)
• Carl Deuker's On the Devil's Court (1989)
• Terry Pratchett's Faust Eric (1990)
• Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley's If at Faust You Don't Succeed (1993)
• Tom Holt's Faust Among Equals (1994)
• Michael Swanwick's Jack Faust (1997)
• Angus Fergusson's The Empress (1997)
• Matthew Lewis's "The Monk" (1796)
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's Quincas Borba (1891)

Films and Screenplays

• a number of films by Georges Melies feature Faust and/or Mephisto
• Der Student von Prag (1913 - remade 1926, and again 1935)
• Faust (1926)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
• La Leggenda di Fausto (1948)
• La Beaute du Diable (1949)
• The Doctor and the Devils by Dylan Thomas (1953), filmed 1985
• The Band Wagon (1953)
• Marguerite de la Nuit (1955)
• Faustina (1956)
• Damn Yankees! (1958)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1960, 1986)
• Faust (1960)
• Faust (1964)
• Faust XX ('66)
• Bedazzled (1967), Bedazzled (2000)
• Doctor Faustus (1967)
• El Extrano Caso del doctor Fausto (1969)
• Il Maestro e Margherita (1972)
• President Faust (1974)
• Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
• The Forbidden (1978)
• Faust/us Renewed (series of shorts '81-'89) - Damnation (series of shorts '92-'98) - The Cabinet of Dr. Mephisto (series of animation shorts '99-'06)
• Mephisto (1981 film) (1981)
• Doktor Faustus (film) (1982)
• Phantom of the Opera - various adaptations
• Angel Heart (1987)
• Faustfilm: An Opera (1987) - Faust's Other: An Idyll (1988) - Faust 3: Candida Albicore (1988) - Faust IV (1989)
• Faust (1994)
• The Devil's Advocate (1997)
• Spawn (1997)
• Faust: Love of the Damned (2001)
• Fausto 5.0 (2001)
• I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
• Faustbook (2006)
• Ghost Rider (2007)

Comics

• Ghost Rider
• Faust, a series of graphic novels.
• Spawn
• Tintin
• Spider-Man: One More Day

Manga

• Osamu Tezuka's Faust (1950)
• R.O.D
• Shaman King

Painting

• Faust (paintings) (1976-79)

See also

• Satan in literature
• Satan in popular culture