/lit/ - Literature

>>23183641

Every play should be operatically set to music.

Can we have a Wagner meme thread?

>For Wagner, improvisation meant getting closer to nature as art and his greatest examples of this are Aeschylus and Shakespeare. In his 1871 essay, “The Destiny of Opera,” Wagner contends that the essence of dramatic art consists in the poet’s making “the improvising spirit of the mime his own” (143). In following this course of action the dramatic poet merely follows the natural origins of all art, which Wagner claims is improvisation. Dilating further upon the notion of improvisation and its relationship to nature, in a conversation about Aeschylus in 1872 he observes to Cosima, “The remarkable thing about this truly great being is that one hardly notices the way it is done! It does not appear to be art at all, because it is in fact something much higher: improvisation”.

Why was Wagner obsessed with redemption/resignation? It's the main theme of all of his dramas, even before reading Schopenhauer.

>inb4 >>>/mu/
This can be seen in his poems alone.