Goethe's Faust

Faust in the study (painting by Georg Friedrich Kersting , 1829)

With Goethe's Faust is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's treatment of the Faust material referred to. The term can refer to the first part of the tragedy created by Goethe, to the first and second parts of the tragedy together or as a whole to the work on Faust, which Goethe took up again and again over the course of sixty years. In this latter sense, it also encompasses the poet's drafts, fragments , commentaries and paralipomena on his Faust work and the subject matter.

For the individual parts and versions of Goethe's Faustwerk see:

• Urfaust , first draft, created between 1772 and 1775,first published posthumously in 1887
• Fist. A fragment , completed in 1788, published in 1790
• Fist. A tragedy. (Also Faust. The first part of the tragedy or Faust I for short), published in 1808
• Fist. The second part of tragedy (also Faust II for short), published in 1832

Web links

Wikisource: Faust  - sources and full texts

Commons : Faust  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Faust Edition , digital historical-critical edition