Faust
Faust is the protagonist of a popular tale that has been used as the basis for many different fictional works. It concerns the fate of a learned gentleman, Johann Faust, who summons the devil and offers to sell him his soul if the devil will serve him for a given period of time. A contract signed in blood is drawn up: ultimately, in most later versions of the tale Faust's soul remains his at the end of the devil's term of service.
Works which retell or allude to the Faust tale include:
-- Drama --
- Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
-- Literature --
- Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
-- Poetry --
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust vol. 1 and vol. 2 (two quite different works)
-- Opera --
- Charles Gounod's Faust
- Arrigo Boito's Mephistofele
-- Music --
- Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust
- Franz Liszt's A Faust Symphony
-- Movies --