/wg/ Wagner General

[Anonymous No.16311119]

How do his Dramas rank? And is he comparable to Shakespeare at all like he thought?

[Anonymous No.16311271]

>>16311119
Start with the Pilgrim's Chorus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6OQCncAiC8

[Anonymous No.16311666]

>>16311119
>And is he comparable to Shakespeare at all like he thought?
Verily. I say he might have even surpassed him.

[Anonymous No.16311725]

>>16311666
appreciate the input, Satan

[Anonymous No.16311756]

>>16311666
Imagine having a head this big.

[Anonymous No.16311758]

>>16311756

[Anonymous No.16311776]

>>16311725
To the highest Spirit I swear, ever since I read Faust I've been getting only double, triple, and quad six. Is the curse upon me? Is too late?

[Anonymous No.16311778]

>>16311776
Well you were close to Godly trips then.

[Anonymous No.16311791]

>>16311778
Even so, the the last digit was six. Truly it is too late.

[Anonymous No.16311803]

>>16311791
I mean 791 isn't a bad number.

[Anonymous No.16311833]

>>16311803
Ah! There is a quarrel in heaven on me. The archangel Michael and Squire Satan are making their case, the high Spirit is sitting on his throne, amused, deciding my fate. What will it be?

[Anonymous No.16311968]

>>16311833
>What will it be?
Dubs of three!
He designated for thee.

[Anonymous No.16311990]

>>16311119
Thanks for ruining /classical/

[Anonymous No.16311992]

>>16311990
I wish I was alive in WWII times. I would have killed so many people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3hLWt1dyGU

[Anonymous No.16312000]

>>16311990
I would shoot that filipinos head off. Like hell I wouldnt

[Anonymous No.16313044]

>>16311119
Is there such thing as being too nationalistic?

>The Christian religion belongs to no specific national stock: the Christian dogma addresses purely - human nature. Only in so far as it has seized in all its purity this content common to all men, can a people call itself Christian in truth. However, a people can make nothing fully its own but what becomes possible for it to grasp with its inborn feeling, and to grasp in such a fashion that in the New it finds its own familiar self again. Upon the realm of aesthetics and philosophic Criticism it may be demonstrated, almost palpably, that it was predestined for the German spirit to seize and assimilate the Foreign, the primarily remote from it, in utmost purity and objectivity of intuition (in höchster objektiver Reinheit der Anschauung). One may aver, without exaggeration, that the Antique would have stayed unknown, in its now universal world-significance, had the German spirit not recognised and expounded it. The Italian made as much of the Antique his own, as he could copy and remodel; the Frenchman borrowed from this remodelling, in his turn, whatever caressed his national sense for elegance of Form: the German was the first to apprehend its purely-human originality, to seize therein a meaning quite aloof from usefulness, but therefore of the only use for rendering the Purely-human. Through its inmost understanding of the Antique, the German spirit arrived at the capability of restoring the Purely-human itself to its pristine freedom; not employing [156] the antique form to display a certain given 'stuff,' but moulding the necessary new form itself through an employment of the antique conception of the world. (02) To recognise this plainly, let anyone compare Goethe's Iphigenia with that of Euripides. One may say that the true idea of the Antique has existed only since the middle of the eighteenth century, since Winckelmann and Lessing.