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In 1848 Richard Wagner began what would become the largest stage work of his career, the Ring of the Nibelung. In preparation for the task he composed an overview of the Nibelung myth designed to lead to a drama; he then composed the verse 'libretto' Siegfried's Death. Although he abandoned the idea of a single opera on Siegfried in favour the Ring cycle, he did include the two early documents in his collected works. The present volume seeks to inform the English-speaking reader in three ways: by providing modern, reliable translations of the two Wagner texts, which are otherwise not available (the German original is provided on facing pages); by furnishing an overview of German scholarship available to Wagner and others working on the Nibelung legend in the first half of the 19th century; and by making available a bibliography of further reading.
Opera --- Wagner, Richard, --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- History and criticism --- Edward R. Haymes. --- Musicology. --- Mythology. --- Nibelung Myth. --- Richard Wagner. --- Ring Cycle. --- Siegfried's Death. --- Wagner's Libretto. --- Wagner's Ring.
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This latest volume of 'Studies in Medievalism' further explores definitions of the field, complementing its landmark predecessor. In its first section, essays by seven leading medievalists seeks to determine precisely how to characterize the subjects of study, their relationship to new and related fields, such as neomedievalism, and their relevance to the middle ages, whose definition is itself a matter of debate. Their observations and conclusions are then tested in the articles second part of the book. Their topics include the notion of progress over the last eighty or ninety years in our perception of the middle ages; medievalism in Gustave Doré's mid-nineteenth-century engravings of the 'Divine Comedy'; the role of music in Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' films; cinematic representations of the Holy Grail; the medieval courtly love tradition in Jeanette Winterson's 'The Passion' and 'The.Powerbook'; Eleanor of Aquitaine in twentieth-century histories; modern updates of the Seven Deadly Sins; and Victorian spins on Jacques de Voragine's 'Golden Legend'. CONTRIBUTORS: Carla A. Arnell, Aida Audeh, Jane Chance, Pamela Clements, Alain Corbellari, Roberta Davidson, Michael Evans, Nickolas Haydock, Carol Jamison, Stephen Meyer, E. L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Clare A. Simmons, Richard Utz, Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling
Medievalism. --- Medeltiden --- attityder till --- historia. --- Mittelalter. --- Rezeption. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- Médiévisme --- Civilisation moderne --- Influence médiévale --- Charles Dickens. --- Handel's Rodelinda. --- J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter. --- John Bale's Reformist Plays. --- King Alfred. --- Medieval Bestiaries. --- Niebelungenlied. --- Revisionist Works. --- Seamus Heaney's Beowulf. --- Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. --- Wagner's Ring Cycle. --- Courtly Love Tradition. --- Divine Comedy. --- Eleanor of Aquitaine. --- Holy Grail. --- Lord of the Rings. --- Middle Ages. --- Music. --- Progress. --- Riddling Tradition. --- Seven Deadly Sins. --- Victorian Spins. --- History --- Research.
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