Frederick, Walter Annotated Ring Cycle (1538136686)
The Annotated Ring Cycle. It's accessible, colorful, and geared to a wide readership-not only scholars and opera buffs but fans of Tolkien, Star Wars, and Hogwarts. Each volume in the series contains the follow:
- A new, complete translation in lively modern English that conveys Wagner's humor, rhymes, alliterative effects, subliminal messages, and inventive tale spinning.
- Focus on the cycle's storyline... its libretto, lyrics, and stage directions... motives, secrets, and plot twists... what's really going on... what its narrative shows and tells.
- Hundreds of intriguing notes and public domain pix, including celebrated artwork by Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle, Aubrey Beardsley, the 1876 costume & set designs, and much more.
- Most important are the new contemporary Graphic Novel style illustrations that visual represent an appealing connection to the Ring's storyline, set side-by-side with the classic artwork of Rackham, et al.
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