Works Based On The Faust Legend - Plays

Plays

  • Faustbuch, anonymous German (1587), the earliest known Faust work
  • Jacob Bidermann's Cenodoxus (1602)
  • Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (A-text 1604, B-text 1616)
  • William Mountfort's The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, made into a farce (1697)
  • John Rich's The Necromancer, or Harlequin Dr. Faustus (1723)
  • John Thurmond's Harlequin Doctor Faustus (1723) and The Miser, or Wagner and Abericock (1726)
  • Gotthold Lessing's Doktor Faust, 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)
  • Alexander Pushkin's A scene from Faust (1830)
  • Nikolaus Lenau's Faust (1836)
  • George Sand's Les Sept Cordes de la Lyre (1838)
  • Heinrich Heine's Der Doktor Faust. Ein Tanzpoem (1851)
  • Dion Boucicault's Faust and Margaret (London, 1854)
  • Friedrich Theodor Vischer's Faust. Der Tragödie dritter Teil (Faust: Part Three of the Tragedy, 1862), a parody of Goethe's Faust Part Two
  • H. J. Byron's Little Doctor Faust (1877) (a musical burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre)
  • W. S. Gilbert's Gretchen, an 1879 play based on Goethe's version of the Faust legend
  • Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat (1918), a theatrical piece "to be read, played and danced" with a libretto by C.F. Ramuz
  • Anatoly Lunacharsky's Фауст и город (Faust and the City) (1918)
  • Michel de Ghelderode's La Mort du Docteur Faust (1925)
  • Fernando Pessoa's Fausto Tragédia Subjectiva (Faust Subjective Tragedy)
  • Dorothy L. Sayers' The Devil to Pay (1939)
  • Paul Valéry's Mon Faust (unfinished 1940)
  • Richard Adler and Jerry Ross's Damn Yankees (1955)
  • Václav Havel's Temptation (1986)
  • Todd Alcott's Jane Faust (1995)
  • George Axelrod's Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
  • David Ives's Don Juan in Chicago (1995)
  • John Jesurun's Faust/How I Rose (1996)
  • La Fura dels Baus's Faust: Version 3.0 (1998)
  • David Mamet's Faustus (2004)
  • Punchdrunk's Faust in Promenade (2006–2007)
  • David Davalos' Wittenberg (2008)
  • Edgar Brau's Faustus (2009)

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