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George Bernard Shaw
Perfect Wagnerite [PDF ebook]
A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring

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Though remembered primarily as a playwright and novelist, Irish writer George Bernard Shaw was an insatiably curious intellect whose interests encompassed a broad array of topics. This exegesis on Wagner’s Ring cycle relates the opera series to ideas like capitalism and mythological archetypes.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 120 ● ISBN 9781776519071 ● Verlag The Floating Press ● Erscheinungsjahr 2011 ● herunterladbar 3 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 6680592 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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