Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

by Roger Scruton

Book Overview

A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music, they have denounced the drama as a "mere trifle"--a rendering of Wagner's forbidden love for Matilde Wesendonck, the wife of a banker who supported...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199928088
• ISBN13: 9780199928088
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"