The Perfect Wagnerite
by Shaw, George BernardEdition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-07-21
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary
The famous playwright's enlightening and provocative criticism surveys the four Wagner operas known as The Ring. Shaw explores the works' philosophic and social ideology as well as Wagner's life, music drama versus grand opera, the role of the Leitmotif in unifying the cycle, Siegfried's character, and many other fascinating subjects.
Author Biography
In the course of his long and prolific career, George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) wrote 60 plays, in addition to music and literary criticism. An avid socialist, he regarded his writing as a vehicle for promoting his political and humanitarian views.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Fourth Edition | p. vii |
| Preface to the Third Edition | p. xiii |
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. xvii |
| Preface to the First Edition | p. xix |
| Preliminary Encouragements | p. 1 |
| The Niblung's Ring | |
| The Rhine Gold | p. 7 |
| Wagner as Revolutionist | p. 25 |
| The Valkyrie | p. 33 |
| Siegfried | p. 43 |
| Back to Opera Again | p. 54 |
| Siegfried as Protestant | p. 57 |
| Panacea Quackery, Otherwise Idealism | p. 60 |
| Dramatic Origin of Wotan | p. 62 |
| The Love Panacea | p. 63 |
| Not Love, but Life | p. 67 |
| Anarchism No Panacea | p. 68 |
| Siegfried Concluded | p. 69 |
| Night Falls on the Gods | p. 71 |
| A Wagnerian Newspaper Controversy | p. 78 |
| Collapse of the Allegory | p. 83 |
| Why He Changed His Mind | p. 87 |
| Wagner's Own Explanation | p. 95 |
| The Pessimist as Amorist | p. 99 |
| The Music of the Ring | p. 103 |
| The Representative Themes | p. 103 |
| The Characterization | p. 106 |
| The Old and the New Music | p. 111 |
| The Nineteenth Century | p. 117 |
| The Music of the Future | p. 123 |
| Bayreuth | p. 127 |
| Bayreuth in England | p. 130 |
| Wagnerian Singers | p. 131 |
| Wagnerism with Wagner Left Out | p. 133 |
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