Faust

Faust occupies a central place in German literature, as the magnum opus of its greatest writer, as one of its greatest dramas, and as an epic poem of the highest quality, for, although it was written to be performed, it may also be regarded as a dramatic poem, prophetic perhaps of Berlioz's hybrid musical adaptation in 'La Damnation de Faust'.The Faust story caught Goethe's attention from an early stage and the first published results of his engagement with it was 'Faust. A Fragment', publi...