Faust

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

Works which retell or allude to the Faust tale

Drama

• Anonymous - Historia von D. Iohan Fausten (1587)
• Jacob Bidermann - Cenodoxus (1602)
• Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1604~1610)
• Dorothy L. Sayers's The Devil to Pay
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part Two
• Gertrude Stein's's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights
• Michel Carre's Faust et Marguerite
• Mark Ravenhill's Faust is Dead
• David Mamet's Faustus

Opera

• Konrad Boehmer's Doktor Faustus (1983), libretto by Hugo Claus
• Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868)
• Havergal Brian's Faust
• Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust (1916-25)
• D'Hervé's Le Petit Faust
• Charles Gounod's Faust (1859)
• Sergei Prokofiev's opera based on Bryusov's The Fiery Angel
• Ludwig Spohr's Faust
• Heinrich Zoellner's Faust`
• Alfred Schnittke's Historia von D. Johann Fausten

Music

• Queen's famous song, "Bohemian Rhapsody," was based on the tale of Faust.
• The third movement of Charles-Valentin Alkan's Grande Sonate (published 1848)
• Hector Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (1845-46) (sometimes performed in staged opera versions)
• Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 75 no 3 (1809) Song - Aus Goethes Faust: "Es war einmal ein König"
• Charles Gounod's Ballet music from his opera Faust (1859). The ballet occurs as an interlude in the Fourth Act during the Walpurgis Night scene familiar from Goethe's Faust Part 1. The ballet or ballet music is often performed independent of the opera.
• Franz Liszt was fascinated by the Faust legend, particularly with the character of Mephistopheles. He wrote several musical works on this idea, including:
• Faust Symphony (1854-57)
• "Two Episodes based on Lenau's Faust," the second of which is the famous "Mephisto Waltz #1"
• "Mephisto Waltzes" (4)
• Part II of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 (1906-07)
• Murdoc Niccals, bassist of the British animated band Gorillaz, claims he had sold his soul to the devil so that the album Demon Days would succeed, and that his middle name was Faust.
• Modest Mussorgsky: "Mephistopheles' song of the flea", is just that: a version of the song that Mephistopheles sings in the tavern scene of Goethe's Faust, pt. 1.
• Randy Newman's Faust (1993)
• Alfred Schnittke's Faust Cantata (1982-83)
• Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814)
• Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust (completed 1853)
• Richard Wagner's Faust overture (1840, originally intended as the first movement of a Faust symphony)
• Art Zoyd's song Faust.
• The Fall's song Dktr Faustus (1986), also known as Faust Banana.
• Avant-garde/progressive black metal band Arcturus's album, La Masquerade Infernale (1997) alludes to the tale and is dedicated to the "Faustian spirit".
• Melodic power metal band Kamelot's albums, Epica (2003) and The Black Halo (2005) are a two-part adaptation of the Faust legend.
• Brian DePalma's Phantom of the Paradise (both the plot of the movie and a musical incorporated into the movie, titled "Foster", are based on the legend of Faust).
• British Rock band Muse's song 'The Small Print', from the album Absolution, describing the plight of Faust from the viewpoint of the Devil
• Popular British Black Metal band 'Cradle of Filth' have a song entitled 'Absinthe With Faust'on their 2004 'Nymphetamine' album.
• John Adams' new opera "Doctor Atomic" was originally commissioned as an American Faust telling, and the composer admits that the opera still retains Faustian elements. Its subject matter is Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.

Poetry

• Heinrich Heine's "Der Doktor Faust"
• Carol Ann Duffy's "Mrs Faust"

Prose fiction

• Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
• Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl's Remarkable Story (Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, 1814)
• Tom Holt's Faust Among Equals
• Alfred Jarry's Faustroll
• Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
• Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer
• Terry Pratchett's Faust Eric
• Ivan Turgenev's Faust
• Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
• Valery Bryusov's The Fiery Angel: the tavern scene from Goethe's Faust, Part 1, is spliced into the rest of Bryusov's storyline.
• Ed Kleiman’s “North End Faust"
• Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness"
• Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
• William Beckford's "Vathek"

Science fiction

• Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer
• Michael Swanwick's Jack Faust
• Zoran ?ivkovi?'s Time-gifts

Movies

• F. W. Murnau's Faust (1926)
• The Band Wagon
• Peter Cook and Dudley Moores Bedazzled (1967), remade in 2000.
• Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
• Jan Svankmajer's Faust (1994 film) (1994)
• I Was A Teenage Faust
• Rowdy Herrington's A Murder Of Crows
• Álex Ollé's Fausto 5.0
• István Szabó's Mephisto (1981 film)
• Stephen King's Needful Things (1993)
• Walter Hill's Crossroads (1986)

Musicals

• Randy Newman's Faust
• The Little Shop of Horrors
• Damn Yankees

Anime and manga

• Shaman King (A character in Shaman King, Faust VIII, is a descendant of Dr. Faust)
• Saber Marionette (The antagonistic ruler of the kingdom of Gartlant in Saber Marionette J)
• Faust Münchhausen (a villain seen in the Urotsukidoji movies)

Video Games

• Faustus is the name of a minor villain in '
• Guilty Gear series, "Faust" (Guilty Gear X, Guilty Gear XX)
• Dr. Faustus was a character in the cancelled Playstation 1 game, "Thrill Kill."
• Soul Edge series, Faust is the name of Siegfried Schtauffen's sword.

Comic books

• The comic book Faust was published in the 80s and 90s by artist Tim Vigil and writer David Quinn. The book follows a story template similar to the opera Faust, but is an updated version. Rebel Studios, an independent label originally published it, but it was later picked up by Avatar Press and a subsequent sequel series was created. Both are extremely sexual and violent series.
• Felix Faust is a magical supervillain in the universe of DC Comics. He appeared first in 1962 as an adversary of the Justice League of America.
• Jack Faust was the name of a magician in Alan Moore's series Promethea, and is also referred to in other books from the America's Best Comics imprint.
• Dr. John Dee, a Renaissance scholar who was a likely inspiration for Marlowe's version of the "Faust" story, is a character in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
• The fifth chapter of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta references Faust, and the deal he made.

Nonfiction

• Bertrand Russell's essay "A Free Man's Worship"

Pen name

"Minister Faust" is a pen name for Canadian writer, broadcaster and activist Malcolm Azania; as Minister Faust, he wrote the science fiction novel and social satire The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad.

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