Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus could refer to:

  • The character of Faust
  • Dr. Johann Georg Faust (1480 – c. 1540), widely considered to be an inspiration for the character of Faust
  • Doctor Faustus (play), a play, also known as The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
  • Goethe's Faust, a two-part play by Goethe
  • Doctor Faustus (novel), a novel by Thomas Mann
  • Doktor Faust, an opera by Ferruccio Busoni
  • Doctor Faustus (film), a 1967 film directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill
  • Doctor Faustus (comics), a character in the Marvel Universe.

Famous quotes containing the words doctor and/or faustus:

    I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    The Prospero of poisons, the Faustus of the front,
    bringing mental magic to modern armament.
    Tony Harrison (b. 1953)