Ring of the Nibelung

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Ring of the Nibelung
Folio Society
Myths

Ring of the Nibelung

Richard Wagner
Edition year 2020
Binding Cloth
Illustrator John Vernon Lord
Translator Stewart Spencer
Pages 448
Dimensions 11½ × 8 in

Edition details

Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner. 17 black and white integrated illustrations with gold rules, 8 pages of black and white integrated images by John Vernon Lord. Edited by Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer. Translated by Stewart Spencer. Commentaries by Barry Millington, Elizabeth Magee, Roger Hollinrake and Warren Darcy. Bound in black screen-printed and cover image blocked cloth. Brown on black picture printed endpapers. Black slipcase with front printed colour design. 448pp. 11½x8in.

About the book

Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung follows the struggle for a ring that promises power over the world while binding its possessors to a destructive curse. Gods, dwarfs, dragons and human heroes become entangled in a drama of bargains, betrayal, love and the failure of authority. This volume presents Wagner's operatic text in Stewart Spencer's English translation, with commentary that explores its legendary sources and dramatic meanings. Across the four parts of the cycle, the desire to control others repeatedly conflicts with the possibility of a less possessive form of love.

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