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Contents 1 Removed items 1.1 Drama 1.2 Opera 1.3 Classical music 1.4 Poetry 1.5 Prose fiction 1.6 Films 2 Reason for creating 3 Faustian 4 Category:Works based on the Faust legend 5 Article title

[edit] Removed items

The following items I removed from the list, because their connection to Faust (and/or their existence) is not explained anywhere on Wikipedia. I'm doing this for the purposes of verifiability: these references have to be checked as to their reliability. It's probably best that this article not get into the connection each work has with Faust, as this is a list. But, if notable, the information should go somewhere: perhaps articles should be created on each work where they don't exist, and those articles can describe the connection with Faust. The important thing is that we should not be doing original research on this page by describing works as retellings of Faust unless we can explain that. Mangojuice^talk 18:45, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Drama

• Dorothy L. Sayers' The Devil to Pay
• Václav Havel's Temptation (1986)
• Michel Carré's Faust et Marguerite
• Don Nigro's Doctor Faustus
• Mark Ravenhill's Faust is Dead
• David M. Nevarrez's "The Pact" (playlet 1995) and The Damnable Doctor Faustus (1995-98)
• Haris Pašović's Faust (Interpretation set in near future)(2006)

[edit] Opera

• Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951)
• Havergal Brian's Faust (1956)
• D'Hervé's Le Petit Faust
• Heinrich Zoellner's Faust.

[edit] Classical music

• The second movement of Charles-Valentin Alkan's Grande Sonate (published 1848)
• Felix Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht (1831, 1843)
• Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat (1918)
• Ernst Heckel and Richard Bunting's modern rock musical "Faust".
• Alexander Comitas' Walpurgisnacht

[edit] Poetry

• Matthew Hong's "I, Faust"
• Heinrich Heine's "Der Doktor Faust"
• Adam Mickiewicz's "Pani Twardowska"
• Carol Ann Duffy's "Mrs Faust"
• Delmore Schwartz's "Faust in Old Age"[1]
• Dale Pendell's "Pharmako Gnosis"
• Paul Celan's "Death Fugue"
• Karl Shapiro's "The Progress Of Faust" (1979)

(note: I think maybe we should avoid poems: poets generally write a great many poems, and unless an individual poem is worth commenting on somewhere, it's not worth including here)

[edit] Prose fiction

• William Beckford's "Vathek"
• Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl's Remarkable Story (Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, 1814)
• Joseph Conrad's “Heart of Darkness"
• William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!"
• Carl Deuker's On the Devil's Court
• Samuel Adams Drake's Jonathan Moulton and the Devil
• Glen Duncan's "I, Lucifer (Glen Duncan)"
• Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware
• William Gaddis's The Recognitions
• João Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands)
• Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs
• John Hersey's Too Far to Walk
• Herman Hesse's Demian
• Stephen King's Needful Things (1993)
• Ed Kleiman’s “North End Faust"
• Harry Mulisch's The Discovery of Heaven
• Anne Rice's "The Tale of the Body Thief" and "Memnoch the Devil"
• Larry Rigby's "The Jäger Artist"
• Stendhal's The Red and the Black
• Zoran Živković's Time-gifts
• Matthew Lewis's The Monk

[edit] Films

• Walter Hill's Crossroads (1986)
• Angel Heart (1987)
• The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989)
• I Was A Teenage Faust
• Rowdy Herrington's A Murder Of Crows
• Álex Ollé's Fausto 5.0
• Tombstone (1993)
• The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
• Ghost Rider (2007)

[edit] Reason for creating

I created this article so that I could remove the lists from Faust. I didn't care whether anyone would come to this page; and I still don't because of all the pointless items in the lists. Brainmuncher 13:55, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

You might want to read Wikipedia:"In popular culture" articles. Still, you did a good thing in titling this the way it is, as opposed to, say, "Faust in popular culture". At least this way it's discriminating. Mangojuice^talk 04:38, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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There was a Wishbone episode also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishbone_(TV_series) Sorry I don't have time to add it properly Andrew Carlssin 23:26, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Faustian

Some of the works listed here have faustian elements (for example Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith) but is that good enough? --RichardVeryard 17:27, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Works based on the Faust legend

How is this page supposed to relate to the Category:Works based on the Faust legend? There is clearly some overlap. --RichardVeryard 17:30, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article title

The title of this article is a bit... unwieldy. What about "Works based on Faust"? - JasonAQuest (talk) 02:47, 4 February 2008 (UTC)