01652cam a22003253u 4500 1487 UtSlPG 20260610133045.0 m cr n 260607r1998||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 MT Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1998 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perfect_Wagnerite Release date is 1998-10-01 Produced by Dianne Bean, and David Widger "The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring" by Bernard Shaw is a philosophical commentary published in 1898. Shaw offers a radical reinterpretation of Wagner's Ring cycle, reading it as a Marxist allegory about capitalism's collapse rather than a simple fairy tale. He argues the work depicts "the whole tragedy of human history" and contemporary dilemmas, accessible only to those with wider consciousness beyond domestic concerns and conventional thinking. Shaw also traces Wagner's shift from music drama back toward traditional opera. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen Opera https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1487 43603 43603