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)
Gotthold Lessing's play, Doktor Faustus, 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)
Christian Dietrich Grabbe's Don Juan und Faust (1829)
Nikolaus Lenau's Faust (1836)
Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights
Fernando Pessoa's Fausto Tragédia Subjectiva (Faust Subjective Tragedy)
Clive Barker's The Damnation Game (1986)
David M. Nevarrez's The Damnable Doctor Faustus (1995-1998)
David Mamet's Faustus (2004)
Punchdrunk's Faust in Promenade (2006-2007)

Opera

Louis Spohr's Faust (1816)
Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust (1846)
Charles Gounod's Faust (1859)
Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868)
Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust (1916-25)
Sergei Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel (1927; first performed 1954)
Henri Pousseur (music) and Michel Butor (libretto), Votre Faust (1961-68), and related "satellite" works
Konrad Boehmer's Doktor Faustus (1983), libretto by Hugo Claus
Alfred Schnittke's Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
The broadway musical Damn Yankees
John Coolidge Adams' Doctor Atomic (2005)
Pascal Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night (2006)
Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951)
Meyer Lutz's burlesque Faust up to date (1888)

Classical Music

Pablo de Sarasate's "Faust Fantasy"
Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 75 no 3 (1809) Song — Aus Goethes Faust: "Es war einmal ein König"
Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814)
Richard Wagner's Faust Overture (1840)
Hector Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (1845-46) (sometimes performed in staged opera versions)
Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust (completed 1853)
Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony (1854-57) and Mephisto Waltzes
Modest Mussorgsky: "Mephistopheles' song of the flea" (1879), is just that: a version of the song that Mephistopheles sings in the tavern scene of Goethe's Faust, pt. 1.
Gustav Mahler's Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906-07)
Alfred Schnittke's Faust Cantata (1982-83)
Randy Newman's Faust (1993)

Contemporary Music

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).
Radiohead's "Faust ARP" & "Videotape" (from the album In Rainbows)
Tenacious D's "Pick of Destiny" (entire album)

Poetry

D.J. Enright's "A Faust Book" (1975)
Carol Ann Duffy's "Mrs Faust"
Charles Baudelaire's "Châtiment De L`Orgueil (Punishment of Pride)"

Prose fiction

John Banville's Mefisto

Valery Bryusov's The Fiery Angel
Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan
Carl Deuker's On the Devil's Court
Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer
Tom Holt's Faust Among Equals
Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker"
Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster
Alfred Jarry's Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician
Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera
Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
Klaus Mann's Mephisto
Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer
Terry Pratchett's ~~Faust~~ Eric
Michael Swanwick's Jack Faust
Ivan Turgenev's Faust
Peadar Ua Laoire's Séadna (Written in Muskerry Gaelic, serialised in the 1890s)
Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley's If at Faust You Don't Succeed
Roger Zelazny's For a Breath I Tarry

Films and Screenplays

a number of films by Georges Melies feature Faust and/or Mephisto
Faust (1926)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
The Doctor and the Devil by Dylan Thomas (1953), filmed 1985
The Band Wagon (1953)
Damn Yankees! (1958)
Little Shop of Horrors (1960, 1986)
Bedazzled (1967), Bedazzled (2000)
Doctor Faustus (1967)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Mephisto (1981 film)
Phantom of the Opera - various adaptations
Faust (1994)
Faust: Love of the Damned (2001)
Fausto 5.0 (2001)
I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Faustbook (2006)
V for Vendetta (2006) - Except for a quote, the movie has little to do with the Faust Legend.
Ghost Rider (film) (2007)

Comics

Manga

Osamu Tezuka's Faust (1950)
R.O.D
Shaman King