by Bernard Shaw

by Bernard Shaw

CONTENTS

Preface to the First German Edition

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

Preface to the First Edition

THE PERFECT WAGNERITE

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

NIGHT FALLS ON THE GODS

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