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Wagner's Ring and German Drama Comparative Studies in Mythology and History in Drama
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Mary A. Cicora
ISBN: 0-313-30529-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30529-0
200 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 1/30/1999
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £79.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Wagner's Ring, an important phenomenon of the German drama tradition, is situated and examined alongside other major works of the canon. Wagner defines tragedy as a mythological drama. The theoretical foundation of the Ring is a complex dialectic of history and myth. By contrasting the Ring with the dramas of Schiller, Hebbel, Hofmannsthal, and Brecht different facets of Wagner's work are uniquely highlighted beyond theoretical generalizations or broad overviews. This series of comparisons offers fresh insight into the interrelationships of the Ring with the previous German drama tradition, and also investigates its influence on twentieth-century drama and opera.

Scholars of German literature and culture will appreciate this innovative interpretation and study of the Ring. New ideas proposed include the suggestions that Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy might have served as a covert source for the Ring and that Ariadne auf Naxos and Mahagonny represent parodies of the Ring. The theory underlying the Ring will attract musicologists and interdisciplinary literary scholars interested in the interrelationship between words and music and literature and opera.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Introduction: On Finding Mythical-Historical Parallels Between Music-Drama, Spoken Drama, and Opera
    Wagner and the Eighteenth Century: History and Myth, Tasso and Tannhäuser, Wotan and Wallenstein
    The Nibelung Legend in the Nineteenth Century: Wagner and Hebbel
    Brünnhilde on Naxos: A Study of the Wagnerian Influence on Hofmannsthal's Dramas and the Hofmannsthal-Strauss Dramas
    Wagner and Brecht, or, Show Me the Way to Nibelheim, O Don't Ask Why, O Don't Ask Why
    Conclusions: History or Myth?
    Literature
About the Author: MARY A. CICORA is author of Mythology as Metaphor: Romantic Irony, Critical Theory, and Wagner's RING (Greenwood, 1998). After attending Yale, she received her doctorate degree in German Literature from Cornell.
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