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Faust
Further Reading
J.W. Smeed did a good introduction to Faust in Literature (OUP 1975)
The Faustbuch has been edited and printed several times. Juliette Wood recommends D.L.Asliman Faust Legends (1999-2001)
Faust: Icon of Modern Culture by Osman Durrani (Robertsbridge: Helm Information, 2004)
The German Idea: Four English Writers and the Reception of German Thought 1800-1860 by Rosemary Ashton ( Libris 1994)
Frank Baron, Doctor Faustus from History to Legend. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1978.
-----, Faustus on Trial. The Origins of Johann Spies's 'Historia' in an Age of Witch Hunting.Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1992.
Paul Bishop (ed.), A Companion to Goethe's Faust: Parts I and II. Rochester/NY: Camden House, 2001.
Jane K. Brown, Goethe's Faust. The German Tragedy. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986.
E.M. Butler, The Myth of the Magus. Cambridge: University Press, 1948.
-----, The Fortunes of Faust. Cambridge: University Press, 1952.
William Empson, Faustus and the Censor. The English Faust-book and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Recovered and edited, with an Introduction and Postscript, by John Henry Jones. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.
Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand (eds), Our Faust? Roots and Ramifications of a Modern German Myth. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
John Henry Jones (ed), The English Faust Book. A critical edition based on the text of 1592. Cambridge: University Press, 1994.
J.D. Jump (ed.), Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus. London: Methuen, 1962.
Eudo C. Mason, Goethe's Faust: Its Genesis and Purport. Berkeley: California University Press, 1967.
Harold Meek, Johann Faust. The Man and the Myth. London: Oxford University Press, 1930.
Philip Mason Palmer and Robert Pattison More: The Sources of the Faust Tradition from Simon Magus to Lessing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1936. Reprinted Octagon 1966.
Jeffrey Burton Russell, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972.
-----, The Life of Lucifer. The Devil in the Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
-----, Mephistopheles. The Devil in the Modern World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Roger Shattuck, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1996.
Theodore Ziolkowski , The Sin of Knowledge. Ancient Themes and Modern Variations. Princeton: University Press, 2000.
Links
Marlowe's Faustus
Goethe's Faust in English (incomplete)
Goethe's Faust in German
Facet's of Goethe's Faust
About the he Faust legends
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