Annotated Ring Cycle

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.