Faust

:This article is about the protagonist of several fictional works. For other uses see Faust (band) and Faust (Guilty Gear).

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Faust (band) - Faust (Guilty Gear)

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Faust or Faustus is the protagonist of a popular German tale that has been used as the basis for many different fictional works. The story concerns the fate of a learned gentleman named Faust, who in his quest for forbidden or advanced knowledge of material things, summons the Devil (represented by Mephistopheles), who offers to serve him for a period of time, at the cost of his soul.

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An anonymous German author wrote the prose volume (chapbook) Historia von D. Iohan Fausten in 1587, which was translated into English by "P. F., Gent" in 1592 as The Historie of the damnable life, and deserved death of Doctor Iohn Faustus. This work was the basis for Christopher Marlowe's play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (published c. 1600) which, along with Jacob Bidermann's Cenodoxus (published c. 1602), served to inspire the later FaustTo book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which may be considered the more definitive classical work.

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German - Chapbook - Christopher Marlowe's - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - Cenodoxus - Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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