BIBLIOGRAPHY
Translations, unless otherwise noted, are by the author
of this article.
The fullest bibliography, to contain some 13,000 entries,
is Hans Henning, Faust-Bibliographie (Berlin and Weimar,
1966-). Teil I: Allgemeines. Grundlagen. Gesamtdarstel-
lungen.—Das Faust-Thema vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1790
records earlier bibliographies, collections of texts and docu-
ments, works about or containing references to the historical
and legendary Fausts (including works of art and music),
and discussions of such parallel figures as Ahasuerus,
Prometheus, Simon Magus, Cyprian, Twardowski, and Don
Juan. Teil II (Goethes Faust), 2 vols., and Teil III (1790 bis
zur Gegenwart. Namen- und Sachregister) are in preparation.
Most accounts of Faust as a literary figure (see below)
also treat the historical and legendary Fausts and their
prototypes. P. M. Palmer and R. P. More, The Sources of
the Faust Tradition from Simon Magus to Lessing (New York,
1936; reprint 1965), cites or summarizes in English transla-
tion the major documents. Specialized discussions are: E. M.
Butler, The Myth of the Magus (Cambridge, 1948), and
Ritual Magic (Cambridge, 1949); H. G. Meek, Johann Faust,
the Man and the Myth (London, 1930).
H. Henning has edited the first Spies Faust-book (Halle,
1963), and William Rose the English translation of 1592
(London, n.d., in the series “Broadway Translations”). H.
G. Haile, Das Faustbuch nach der Wolfenbüttler Handschrift
(Berlin, 1963), reproduces a manuscript possibly antedating
Spies; he indicates by typographical devices the parts that
may derive from an earlier Latin or German life of Faust.
Recent surveys of Faust as a figure or theme in literary
or other art forms and of interpretations of the legend
include: E. M. Butler, The Fortunes of Faust (Cambridge,
1952); Vincenzo Errante, Il Mito di Faust, Vol. I, Dal
personaggio storico alla tragedia di Gœthe (Florence, 1951);
Geneviève Bianquis, Faust à travers quatre siècles (Paris,
1955); Charles Dédéyan, Le Thème de Faust dans la littéra-
ture européenne, 4 vols. in 6 parts (Paris, 1956-65); André
Dabezies, Visages de Faust au XXe siècle: Littérature,
idéologie et mythes (Paris, 1967); J. W. Kelly, The Faust
Legend in Music (Evanston, Ill., 1960); Wolfgang Wegner,
Die Faustdarstellung vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
(Amsterdam, 1962), which may be supplemented by Franz
Neubert, Vom Doctor Faust zu Goethes Faust, mit 595
Abbildungen (Leipzig, 1932).
An excellent selective bibliography (updated in each new
printing) for Goethe's Faust and the secondary literature
relevant to it is that in
Goethes Werke, Band III, ed. Erich
Trunz (Hamburg, 1949), available separately as
Goethes
Faust; the edition includes the text of the “Urfaust.”
Goethe's Faust, ed. R-M. S. Heffner, et al., 2 vols. (Boston,
1954-55), has an introduction and notes in English. The
classic English translation is that of Bayard Taylor; there
is a modernized version of it by S. Atkins, 2 vols. (New
York, 1965-67). The interpretation in the foregoing article
is largely that of S. Atkins,
Goethe's Faust: A Literary Anal-
ysis (Cambridge, Mass., 1969).
STUART ATKINS
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