The perfect Wagnerite: a commentary on the Niblung's ring

✍ Scribed by Shaw, George Bernard;

• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 147 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1775453472

✦ Synopsis

Title; Contents; Preface to the First German Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Preliminary Encouragements; The Ring of the Niblungs; The Rhine Gold; Wagner as Revolutionist; The Valkyries; Siegfried; Siegfried as Protestant; Night Falls on the Gods; Why He Changed His Mind; Wagner's Own Explanation; The Music of the Ring; The Old and the New Music; The Nineteenth Century; The Music of the Future; Bayreuth; Endnotes.;Though remembered primarily as a playwright and novelist, Irish writer George Bernard Shaw was an insatiably curious intellect whose interests encompassed a broad array of topics. This exegesis on Wagner's Ring cycle relates the opera series to ideas like capitalism and mythological archetypes.