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.
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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)
- Václav Havel's "Temptation" (1986)
- 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 romantic opera Faust and Marguerite and his 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).
- Akercocke (certain songs)
- Radiohead's "Faust ARP" & "Videotape" (from the album In Rainbows)
- Tenacious D's "Pick of Destiny" (entire album)
- Muse's The Small Print(from the album Absolution
- Current 93's Faust, based on a story by Count Eric Stenbock.
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
- William Gaddis's The Recognitions
- 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
FaustEric - 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 Devils 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
- Angelheart(1987 film) (1987)
- Faust (1994)
- The devils advocate (1997)
- 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)
- Ghost Rider (2007)
Comics
- Ghost Rider
- Faust, a series of graphic novels.
- Spawn
- Spider-Man: One More Day
Manga
- Osamu Tezuka's Faust (1950)
- R.O.D
- Shaman King
