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)
- Alexander Pushkin's A scene from Faust (1830)
- Nikolaus Lenau's Faust (1836)
- George Sand's Les Sept Cordes de la Lyre (1838)
- Heinrich Heine's Der Doktor Faust. Ein Tanzpoem (1851)
- Dion Boucicault's Faust and Margaret (London, 1854)
- Friedrich Theodor Vischer's Faust. Der Tragödie dritter Teil (Faust: Part Three of the Tragedy, 1862), a parody of Goethe's Faust Part Two
- H. J. Byron's Little Doctor Faust (1877) (a musical burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre)
- W. S. Gilbert's Gretchen, an 1879 play based on Goethe's version of the Faust legend
- Michel de Ghelderode's La Mort du Docteur Faust (1925)
- Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
- Dorothy L. Sayers' The Devil to Pay (1939)
- Paul Valéry'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)
- Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat (1918) a theatrical piece "to be read, played and danced" with a libretto by C.F. Ramuz
- Michael D'Antonio's Faust in Vitro (1997)
- David Ives's "Don Juan in Chicago" (1995)
- La Fura dels Baus's Faust: Version 3.0 (1998)
- Mickle Maher's An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening (1999)
- David Mamet's Faustus (2004)
- Punchdrunk's Faust in Promenade (2006–2007)
- George Axelrod's Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
- Justin Sepple's musical, Disco Inferno
- Edgar Brau's Faustus (2009)
- David Davalos' Wittenberg (2008)
Opera
Contemporary Musical Theater
Classical Music
Ballet
Contemporary Music
- Blues guitarist Robert Johnson, fancifully said to have acquired his playing skill from the devil at a deserted crossroads
- 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 "The Pick of Destiny"
- Muse's The Small Print (from the album Absolution, originally titled "Action Faust")
- Current 93's Faust, based on a story by Count Eric Stenbock.
- Frank Zappa's Titties & Beer. 'Live in New York'
- Tom Waits's "Lucinda" (from the album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)
- Sabbat (band)'s A Cautionary Tale (from the album History of a Time to Come)
- Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down To Georgia".
- Streetlight Manifesto's "Down, Down, Down to Mephisto's Cafe" (from the album Somewhere in the Between)
- Dark Moor's "Faustus" song on the Autumnal album.
- The Police's "Wrapped around your Finger" single (from the Synchronicity album, 1983) refers to Mephistopheles by way of analogy
- Gorillaz "Faust" song (from the album G-Sides)
- Eminem "My Darling" B side from the Relapse album.
- Konrad Boehmer "Apocalipsis cum figuris Electronic, instrumental, vocal,1984
- Konrad Boehmer Doktor Fausti Höllenfahrt orchestra, 2006
- Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- Moonspell's Mephisto from album Irreligious
- Faust A German Krautrock band
- DMX (rapper)'s "Damien" songs (various albums)
- The Fall (band)'s "Dktr Faustus" (from the album Bend Sinister)
- Snoop Dogg's "Murder Was the Case"
Poetry
Prose fiction
Films, Screenplays, and Television
Comics
Manga
Video games
Painting
See also