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George Bernard Shaw
Perfect Wagnerite
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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 120 ● ISBN 9781775453475 ● Publisher The Floating Press ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2415906 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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