The Perfect Wagnerite
A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring
by
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Dover Publications, (republished) 2010
92 pages, 6 x 9 in
A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring is the unabridged replication of George Bernard Shaw’s 1923 edition, commenting on Richard Wagner’s chief work, The Ring series in four parts: The Valkyrie, Siegfried, Night Falls on the Gods, and The Rhine Gold. Shaw offered it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who "were unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the least understand the dilemma of Wotan.