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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Nibelungen"”.
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The Ambiguity of otherness in adaptations of the Nibelungen myth: "Das Nibelungenlied" and Fritz Lang's "Die Nibelungen".
… ago anonymous poets set the orally transmitted Nibelungen myth to parchment. This action started a trend of adapting the myth for contemporary audiences, a trend that has lasted since the High Middle Ages. Since then, the Nibelungen myth has become a sustaining element of the …
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“A Door Left Open”: Tracing Shakespeare’s Influence in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
… and characters in Wagner’s <em>Der Ring des Nibelungen</em>. This thesis delves first into the father/son relationship, examining how sons react to their father’s “Call to Action” through a study of Hagen/Alberich and Hamlet/the Ghost. Next, it inspects the father/daughter relationship …
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A comparison of Richard Wagner's Der ring des Nibelungen and William Morris's Sigurd the volsung
… compares the text of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen with the epic poem Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris. Chapter I begins with an outline of the question under discussion, namely, whether Sigurd the Volsung could have been written as an anti-ring. The rest of the thesis discusses …
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Der Ring des Nibelungen in the New World: the American performance and reception of Wagner's Cycle, 1850-1903
… Wagner’s monumental operatic cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, in the social and cultural context of opera production and performance in the United States from 1850 to 1903. It considers the social and cultural processes that led to the incorporation of the work’s operas into an ongoing repertory, …
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The legacy of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen as reflected in select late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century film media
… interesting with regard to the Der Ring des Nibelungen (aka "the Ring Cycle"). The Ring is his most ambitious and influential, and densest work, and perhaps the one with the greatest lingering legacy in popular culture. For example, "Ride of the Valkyries," an excerpt from Die Walküre made …
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The leitmotif technique in Puccini's La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly
… musical dramas, especially in Der Ring Des Nibelungen, the leitmotif technique was given special consideration and emphasis. Several motifs appeared together to present complex emotions or situations. The whole Ring is bound by a web of leitmotifs. Compared to Wagner's leitmotif technique, …
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Interpretations of Richard Wagner's Music Drama in English-Language Poetry and Poetics (1848-1924)
… Alfred Forman’s 1877 translation of Der Ring des Nibelungen. The first scholarly consideration of Forman, chapter one reveals an ambitious and humorous translator who sought to enlist the poets A. C. Swinburne and William Morris. A parallel discussion of William Ashton Ellis, translator of …