The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
by Bernard Shaw
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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
- Back to Opera Again
- Siegfried as Protestant
- Panacea Quackery, Otherwise Idealism
- Dramatic Origin of Wotan
- The Love Panacea
- Not Love, but Life
- Anarchism No Panacea
- Siegfried Concluded
- Prologue
- A Wagnerian Newspaper Controversy
- Forgotten Ere Finished
- Why He Changed His Mind
- Wagner's Own Explanation
- The Pessimist as Amorist
- The Music of the Ring
- The Characterization
- The Old and the New Music
- The Nineteenth Century
- The Music of the Future
- Bayreuth
- Bayreuth in England
- Wagnerian Singers