WE have seen in a former paper the care with which Goethe has pointed out the way to discover the answer to the question, What is Faust ? In his letters he returns to the subject again and again, ...

A new biography by AN Wilson shows how the playwright, poet, scientist and statesman poured himself into his greatest work. By John Banville Some biographers, perhaps more than we know of, come to ...

Even if they've never read Goethe's Faust, most people are familiar with the concept of a "Faustian bargain". The idea is that you sell your soul to get what you want. Goethe's play centers on ...

As we reach the end of the tragedy of the First Part of Faust and look back, we seem to have come, with Mephistopheles, upon that midway height where we can see only with astonishment “ how Mammon in ...