Goethe's Faust grows from the legend first printed in the 1587 Historia von D. Johann Fausten, which reached him through later chapbook versions and the Faust puppet plays he saw as a child.
Book· 1587· Religious
Historia von D. Johann Fausten
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Marlowe's play follows the English Faust Book, the 1592 translation of the German Historia, from Faustus's pact with Mephistopheles to his damnation.