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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
Book Code: GM0529
ISBN: 0-313-30529-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30529-0
200 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 1/30/1999
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
Series Number: 52
Reviews:
  • The author departs radically from the many studies on Wagner's influence on both music and literature, with her focus on myth versus history in German drama....Amply documented, this refreshing and provocative interdisciplinary study is recommended to literary critics, musicologists, and students of culture at all levels. A must for all libraries.
    —Choice
  • ...this book represents a dedicated and thorough effort in research and scholarship.
    —The Opera Journal     March 2002
  • We can thank Mary Cicora for her insights into Wagner's refabrication of mythology and indebtedness to Romantic irony and for her thoughtful placement of Wagner in the center of a tradition stretching from Schiller to Brecht.
    —Opera Quarterly
  • Endorsement From Paul Robinson
    Professor of History, Stanford University
    Author, Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss:     Having successfully deconstructed the Ring, Mary Cicora now turns her sharp and practiced eye to situating Wagner in the larger story of German drama, from Schiller to Brecht. The results are impressive.
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
LC Card Number: 98-37782
LCC Class: ML410
Dewey Class: 782
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