The Cambridge Companion to Wagner

Contents

• Chronology;
• Part I . Biographical and Historical Contexts:
• 1. Wagner lives: issues in autobiography John Deathridge;
• 2. Meister Richard's apprenticeship: the early operas (1833-40) Thomas S. Grey;
• 3. To the Dresden barricades: the genesis of Wagner's political ideas Mitchell Cohen;
• Part II . Opera, Music, Drama:
• 4. The 'Romantic operas' and the turn to myth Stewart Spencer;
• 5. Der Ring des Nibelungen: conception and interpretation Barry Millington;
• 6. Leitmotif, temporality, and musical design in the Ring Thomas S. Grey;
• 7. Tristan und Isolde: essence and appearance John Daverio;
• 8. Performing Germany in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Stephen McClatchie;
• 9. Parsifal: redemption and Kunstreligion Glenn Stanley;
• Part III . Ideas and Ideology in the Gesamtkunstwerk:
• 10. The urge to communicate: the prose writings as theory and practice James Treadwell;
• 11. Critique as passion and polemic: Nietzsche and Wagner Dieter Borchmeyer;
• 12. The Jewish question Thomas S. Grey;
• Part IV . After Wagner: Influence and Interpretation:
• 13. 'Wagnerism': responses to Wagner in music and the arts Annegret Fauser;
• 14. Wagner and the Third Reich: myths and realities Pamela M. Potter;
• 15. Wagner on stage: aesthetic, dramaturgical, and social considerations Mike Ashman;
• 16. Criticism and analysis: current perspectives Arnold Whittall.