Editing Faust (section)

===Benét's ''The Devil and Daniel Webster''===
[[File:Richard Westall - Faust and Lilith.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|''Faust and [[Lilith]]'' (1831) [[Richard Westall]].]]
[[Stephen Vincent Benét]]'s short story "[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]" published in 1937 is a retelling of the tale of Faust based on the short story "[[The Devil and Tom Walker]]", written by [[Washington Irving]]. Benet's version of the story centers on a [[New Hampshire]] farmer by the name of Jabez Stone who, plagued with unending bad luck, is approached by the devil under the name of [[Old Scratch|Mr.&nbsp;Scratch]] who offers him seven years of prosperity in exchange for his soul. Jabez Stone is eventually defended by [[Daniel Webster]], a fictional version of the famous lawyer and orator, in front of a judge and jury of the damned, and his case is won. It was adapted in 1941 as a movie,  ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster (film)|The Devil and Daniel Webster]]'', with [[Walter Huston]] as the devil, [[James Craig (actor)|James Craig]] as Jabez and [[Edward Arnold (actor)|Edward Arnold]] as Webster. It was remade in 2007 as ''[[Shortcut to Happiness]]'' with [[Alec Baldwin]] as Jabez, [[Anthony Hopkins]] as Webster and [[Jennifer Love Hewitt]] as the Devil.