Preface
The Text of Faust, Part I and Part II
Contexts
The Composition of Faust
Goethe on Faust: On the early composition of the drama (from Poetry and Truth, Books 10 and 12)
Preparing the Fragment in Rome (from the Italian Journey, Second Stay in Rome, March, 1788)
The Faust Plan of 1800
From Goethe's Correspondence with Schiller (1794–1801)
Outline of Contents for Part II (1816)
Second Sketch for the Announcement of Helena (1827) o From Goethe's Letters and from Conversations with Eckermann (1825–32)
Eugene Delacroix, Faust Illustrations
Criticism
Comments by Contemporaries
Wilhelm von Humboldt to his fiancée (June 1790)
Henrik Steffen, from his Autobiography
August Wilhelm Schlegel's Review of Faust, A Fragment (1790)
Friedrich Schegel, [On Hamlet and Faust as Philosophical Tragedies], from his Essay on The Study of Greek Literature (1795) o Friedrich Schelling, [On Faust as Tragicomedy], from his Philosophy of Art and Related Writings (c. 1800–02)
George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel on Faust (from Phenomenology of Spirit, 1807, and Lectures on Aesthetics, 1835–9)
Mme. Germaine deStaël, Faustus (from On Germany, 1813)
Thomas Carlyle, from Edinburgh Review, 1822
Heinrich Heine, on Faust (from The Romantic School, 1833)
Margaret Fuller, from The Dial, July 1841
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from The Dial, October 1840
Modern Criticism
Stuart Atkins, Motif in Literature: The Faust Theme
Jaroslav Pelikan, Faust as Doctor of Theology
Benjamin Bennett, Interrupted Tragedy as a Structural Principle in Faust
Franco Morretti, Faust and the Nineteenth Century
Friedrich A. Kittler, The Scholar's Tragedy: Prelude in the Theater o Neil M. Flax, The Presence of the Sign in Goethe's Faust
Marc Shell, The Economics of Translation in Goethe's Faust
Jane Brown, The Spirit of Water
Hans Rudolf Vaget, Act IV Revisited: A ‘Post-Wall' Reading of Goethe's Faust
Marshall Berman, Goethe's Faust: The Tragedy of Development
John Hollander, [Faust]
Selected Bibliography