Works based on Faust
Appearance
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Drama
- Jacob Bidermann's Cenodoxus (1602)
- Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1604~1610)
- 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 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)
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
- The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night
- Switchfoot's 'Faust, Midas and Myself' (2006)
Poetry
- D.J. Enright's "A Faust Book" (1975)
Prose fiction
- Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
- Valery Bryusov's The Fiery Angel
- Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
- Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer
- Tom Holt's Faust Among Equals
- Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker"
- 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
FaustEric - Michael Swanwick's Jack Faust
- Ivan Turgenev's Faust
- 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
- John Banville's Mefisto
- Carl Deuker's On the Devil's Court
Film
- Faust (1926)
- The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
- 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)
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- Ghost Rider (film) (2007)
Manga
- Osamu Tezuka's Faust (1950)