The Faust Legend

The Faust Legend Criticism

• Introduction
• Essays
  • Introduction
  • The Historical Faust
  • Reconstruction of the Faust Book: The Disputations
  • The First German Faust Published in America
  • The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Faust Play
  • Faust As a Character and a Type: Changes in Interpretation and Motivation
  • The Faustbuch and The Golden Legend: The Faustian Reversal of the Saint's Life
  • From Witchcraft to Doctor Faustus
  • The Making of the Historia von D. Johann Fausten: The Emergence of the Faustian Pact
  • The Precarious Legacy of Renaissance Humanism in the Faust Legend
  • Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus
  • Prometheus Transformed and Transposed: Faustus As the Reformation Prometheus
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
• Further Reading