| Preface | ix |
| The Text of Faust. A Tragedy | 1 |
| The Tragedy's First Part | 12 |
| Walpurgis Night | 110 |
| Walpurgis Night's Dream or the Golden Wedding of Oberon and Titania. Intermezzo | 120 |
| The Tragedy's Second Part in Five Acts | 135 |
| Act I | 135 |
| Act II | 187 |
| Classical Walpurgis Night | 199 |
| Act III [Helena. Classical-Romantic Phantasmagoria] | 241 |
| Act IV | 287 |
| Act V | 313 |
| Interpretive Notes | 345 |
| Contexts | 493 |
| Selected Illustrations for Faust | 494 |
| The Composition of Faust | 505 |
| Goethe on Faust | 514 |
| From Goethe's Autobiography | 514 |
| From Italian Journey | 515 |
| Faust Plan of 1800 | 515 |
| From Goethe's Correspondence with Schiller, 1794-1801 | 516 |
| Outline of the Contents for Part Two | 521 |
| Second Sketch for the Announcement of the Helena | 523 |
| From Goethe's Letters and His Conversations with Eckermann | 530 |
| Comments by Contemporaries | 550 |
| [Response to the Newly Published Fragment of Faust] | 550 |
| [First Impression of Faust] | 551 |
| [Review of the Fragment of 1790] | 552 |
| [On Hamlet and Faust as Philosophical Tragedies] | 553 |
| [On Faust as Tragicomedy] | 555 |
| [Paraphrase of Faust, from The Phenomenology of Mind] | 557 |
| "Faustus" | 558 |
| [First Notice of Faust in English] | 560 |
| [Faust] | 563 |
| "Goethe" | 565 |
| [General Remarks on Goethe] | 567 |
| Modern Criticism | 571 |
| [Survey of the Faust Theme] | 573 |
| Faust as Doctor of Theology | 586 |
| Interrupted Tragedy as a Structural Principal in Faust | 598 |
| [Goethe's Faust as Modern Epic] | 611 |
| [Faust and Discourse Networks] | 634 |
| The Presence of the Sign in Goethe's Faust | 650 |
| The Economics of Translation in Goethe's Faust | 668 |
| [The Spirit of Water: Faust, Part Two, Act II] | 688 |
| [The Ethics of Faust's Last Actions] | 704 |
| [Faust as Developer] | 715 |
| What the Lovers in the Old Songs Thought | 728 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A Chronology | 731 |
| Selected Bibliography | 735 |
