A select few scholars suppose an anon. German author wrote a prose volume (chapbook) Historia von D. Iohan Fausten inside 1587 (noting that a word 'historia' is Latin for German Geschichte, & implying the however earliest, independent source in the Latin language), which was so translated into English by the certain "P. F., Gent[leman]" inside 1592 when A Historie of the execrable life, & merited dying of Doctor Iohn Faustus. A 1592 English act was so utilized as a model by Christopher Marlowe's for a somewhat more ambitious play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (published c. 1600) which, along sustaining Jacob Bidermann's Cenodoxus (published c. 1602), served to inspire a late Faust[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14591/14591-h/14591-h.htm To book] by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which may be considered a supplementary definitive authoritative function.

Historical origins
the oldest story of a pact with the Devil is the story of Theophilus of Adana. Elements of his story come out in the story of Faust & in the story of Pan Twardowski.

the tale has a few imaginable basis inside a Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480-1540), who was natural in the village of Knittlingen, Württemberg, and was granted the B.The. within divinity from either Heidelberg University in 1509. This identity is non definite, & it might just exist as that a title of "Faust" has turn into tied to any total of legendary tales all about the mountebank alchemist (some claim "astrologer and necromancer"), whose pride, vanity, and foul hucksterism would inevitably lead to his day of reckoning.

"Faust's" unfortunate reputation became legendary once spell witharound prison, in exchange for wine he "offered to show a chaplain how to remove hair from his face without a razor; the chaplain provided the wine and Faustus provided the chaplain with a salve of arsenic, which removed not only the hair but the flesh." (Barnett) An additional super imaginable inspiration for Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is John Dee (1527-1609), who practised forms of alchemy and science and developed Enochian magic.

Marlowe's Doctor Faustus appears to have been depending nearly totally in an unpreserved 1592 translation by "P.F.", by using even more, an extra borrowing from either Acts & Monuments by John Foxe, in the exchanges between Pope Adrian and the rival pope.

A meme "Pact with the Devil" is a widespread ethnic inheritance.

Works which retell or allude to the Faust tale
Drama
Anon. - Historia von D. Iohan Fausten (1587) Jacob Bidermann - Cenodoxus (1602) Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1604~1610) Gotthold Lessing's unfinished play on Faust (1784), posthumously published but since then unpreserved Dorothy L. Sayers's The Devil to Pay Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part Two Gertrude Stein's's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights Michel Carre's Faust et Marguerite Mark Ravenhill's Faust is Dead David Mamet's Faustus

Opera
Konrad Boehmer's Doktor Faustus (1983), libretto by Hugo Claus Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868) Havergal Brian's Faust Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust (1916-25) D'Hervé's Le Petit Faust Charles Gounod's Faust (1859) Sergei Prokofiev's opera based on Bryusov's The Fiery Angel Ludwig Spohr's Faust Heinrich Zoellner's Faust` Alfred Schnittke's Historia von D. Johann Fausten

Music
Queen's far-famed song, " Bohemian Rhapsody," was based on a tale of Faust. A third movement of Charles-Valentin Alkan's Grande Sonate (published 1848) Hector Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (1845-46) (sometimes performed inside arranged opera versions) Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 75 no Trine (1809) Song - Aus Goethes Faust: "Es war einmal ein König" Charles Gounod's Ballet music from his opera Faust (1859). A ballet is recognized through it's an interlude in a For Work in the period of the Walpurgis Nighttime scene familiar from either Goethe's Faust A share One. A ballet or even ballet music is typically performed independent of the opera. Franz Liszt was fascinated by a Faust legend, particularly by having the character of Mephistopheles. He wrote many musical works on this idea, including: Faust Symphony (1854-57) "Two Episodes based on Lenau's Faust," the second of which is the famous "Mephisto Waltz #1" "Mephisto Waltzes" (4) A portion Two of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 (1906-07) Murdoc Niccals, bassist of the British animated band Gorillaz, claims he had sold his soul to a devil therefore that the album Demon Days would succeed, and that his middle title was Faust. Modest Mussorgsky: "Mephistopheles' song of the flea", is just that: the version of the song that Mephistopheles sings in the tap house scene of Goethe's Faust, platinum. Unity. Randy Newman's ''Faust'' (1993) Alfred Schnittke's Faust Cantata'' (1982-83) Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814) Robert Schumann's ''Scenes from Goethe's Faust'' (completed 1853) Richard Wagner's Faust overture (1840, originally intended when the number one movement of a Faust symphony) Art Zoyd's song Faust. The Fall's song Dktr Faustus (1986), also referred to as Faust Banana. Avant-garde/progressive black metal band Arcturus's album, La Masquerade Infernale (1997) alludes to the tale and is dedicated to the "Faustian spirit". Melodic power metal band Kamelot's albums, Epica (2003) and The Black Halo (2005) are the both-two-way adaptation of the Faust legend. Brian DePalma's Phantom of the Paradise (both a plot of the flick & a musical theater incorporated into the flick, highborn "Foster", come according to a legend of Faust). British Rock band Muse's song 'The Microscopic Print', from either a album Absolution, describing a plight of Faust from either the viewpoint of the Devil Popular British Black Metal band 'Cradle of Filth' have a song entitled [http://www.lyricsbox.com/cradle-of-filth-lyrics-absinthe-with-faust-fl827km.html 'Absinthe With Faust']on their 2004 'Nymphetamine' album. John Adams' new opera "Doctor Atomic" was originally commissioned as an U.s. Faust telling, & a composer admits that a opera however retains Faustian elements. Its subject matter is Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.

Poetry
Heinrich Heine's "Der Doktor Faust" Carol Ann Duffy's "Mrs Faust"

Prose fiction
Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita Adelbert von Chamisso's ''Peter Schlemihl's Remarkable Story (Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte'', 1814) Tom Holt's Faust Among Equals Alfred Jarry's Faustroll Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer Terry Pratchett's Faust Eric Ivan Turgenev's Faust Douglass Wallop's a Month a Yankees Misused the Pennant Valery Bryusov's The Fiery Angel: the tap house scene from either Goethe's Faust, Section One, is spliced into a rest of Bryusov's plot line. Ed Kleiman’s “North End Faust" Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness" Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" William Beckford's "Vathek" Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" Science fiction
Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer Michael Swanwick's Jack Faust Zoran Živković's Time-gifts

Movies
F. W. Murnau's Faust (1926) The Band Wagon Peter Cook and Dudley Moores Bedazzled (1967), remade in 2000. Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974) Jan Svankmajer's Faust (1994 film) (1994) I Was A Teenage Faust Rowdy Herrington's A Murder Of Crows �lex Ollé's Fausto 5.0 István Szabó's Mephisto (1981 film) Stephen King's Needful Things (1993) Walter Hill's Crossroads (1986)

Musicals
Randy Newman's ''Faust The Little Shop of Horrors Damn Yankees

Anime and manga
Shaman King (A character inside Shaman King, Faust VIII, occurs as descendent of Dr. Faust) Saber Marionette (The antagonistic ruler of the kingdom of Gartlant around Saber Puppet J) Faust Münchhausen (the villain seen in the Urotsukidoji movies)

Video Games
Faustus is the title of the minor villaaround in Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain Guilty Gear series, "Faust" (Guilty Devices X, Guilty Devices XX'')

Dr. Faustus was the character in the off Playstation One game, "Thrill Kill." Soul Edge series, Faust is the name of Siegfried Schtauffen's sword.

Comic books
A comic book Faust was published in the 80s and 90s by artist Tim Vigil and writer David Quinn. the book follows a story templet similar to the opera Faust, however is an updated version. Rebel Studios, an independent label originally published it, but it was late picked higher by Avatar Press and a subsequent sequel series was created. Each come super intimate & violent series.

Felix Faust is a magical supervillain in the universe of DC Comics. He appeared foremost around 1962 as an adversary of the Justice League of America.

Jack Faust was the title of a magician within Alan Moore's series Promethea, and is as well referred to inside more books from either a America's Best Comics imprint.

Dr. John Dee, the Renaissance scholar world health organization was the probably inspiration for Marlowe's version of the "Faust" story, occurs as character inside Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.

A fifth chapter of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta references Faust, and a treat he mass produced.

Nonfiction
Bertrand Russell's essay "A Free Man's Worship"

Pen name
"Minister Faust" is a pen name for Canadian writer, broadcaster and activistic Malcolm Azania; as Minister Faust, he wrote a science fiction novel and social satire The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad.