Its redemptive ending inspired Mahler to mind-blowing music, Gounod wrote one of the greatest soprano roles for its tragic heroine, and some of us first encountered it via Tintin, but, argues AN ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's classic drama continues to fascinate literature lovers. Why does the German play remain relevant today? Goethe's "Faust," one of the greatest works of German literature, ...

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 ...

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, ...