Faust (Latin Faustus) is the protagonist of a popular German tale of a pact with the Devil, assumed to be based on the figure of the German magician and alchemist Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480–1540). It has been used as the basis for many different fictional works, most notably by Christopher Marlowe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Klaus Mann, Thomas Mann, Hector Berlioz, Oscar Wilde and Mikhail Bulgakov.

A Look at Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus - Subtitled Renaissance Attitudes Towards Faustus as a Magician, featuring a few brief essays on this aspect of Faustian legend.
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Berlioz' Faust - Background notes on Hector Belioz' opera La Damnation de Faust
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Doctor Faustus - Medical reflections on the significance of Marlowe's Faust.
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Dr Faustus - Faust Legend - Argument for locating the origins of the character of Doctor Faust in the figures of Doctor John Dee and Cornelius Agrippa.
Faust Legends - Versions, translations, links to texts, and literary and musical works influenced by the legend.
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Faust Notes - Notes and commentary on Goethe's Faust work.
Faust Study Questions - Study guide for Goethe's Faust: A Tragedy by Paul Brians.
Faust, Part 1 - Complete text of Goethe's Faust as translated by Marlowe from Project Gutenberg.
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Goethe's Faust - The entirety of the Goethe's play as translated by George Madison Priest. Hosted by Adam McLean's Alchemy web site.
Images - F.W. Murnau: The Last Laugh and Faust - A DVD review of Murnau's classics by Gary Johnson, including an analysis of his Faust and its variability in the sight of the evaluating viewers through time, along with its relative completement in The Last Laugh.
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Jan Svankmajer: Faust [Lekce Faust] (1994) - Synopsis, commentary and related information on the 1994 film Lekce Faust concerning the legendary and literary elements incorporated into the film.
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Marlowe Comparisons - Revision of W. W. Greg's 1950 parallel text edition of the two extant versions of Doctor Faustus: the '1604 A' text and the '1616 B' text. Also included is The English Faust Book translated from German in 1592 by P. F. Gent. Allows users to examine these Renaissance texts and the intricate relationships between them.
Striving Towards the Union of Masculine with Feminine in Goethe's Faust - A mystical consideration of the significance of Goethe's classic play.
Summary of Faust - An overview of Goethe's Faust with commentary.
Tabula Rasa: Faust - An article about the historical origins of the Faust legend and Faust's comparisons with other figures in literature.
The Faust Legend - Article by Lloyd Hawkins on the various historical expressions of Faust and history associated with the legends.
The Faust Tradition from Marlowe to Mann - Directory of links to source documents pertinent to a scholarly study of Faustian legends.
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