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Biography of Gottfried von Strassburg
587 words, approx. 2 pages
 The German poet and romancer Gottfried von Strassburg (ca. 1165-ca. 1215) wrote "Tristan und Isolt," the best-known version of that famous love story. There is little information about the life of Gottfried von Strassburg. He was not of noble lineage but...
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Biography of Gottfried von Strassburg
5286 words, approx. 17.6 pages
 Gottfried von Straßburg was highly regarded by writers who came after him, and his reputation was never greater than it is today. His work, like that of most writers of the high medieval period, was lost from sight with the advent of the Renaissanc...
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Biography of Gottfried von Strassburg
4990 words, approx. 16.6 pages
 Gottfried von Straßburg was highly regarded by writers who came after him, and his reputation was never greater than it is today. His work, like that of most writers of the high medieval period, was lost from sight with the advent of the Renaissanc...



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Tristan Information
1,292 words, approx. 4 pages
 Sir Tristan (Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Drystan; also known as Tristran, Tristram, etc.) is one of the main characters of the Tristan and Iseult story, a Cornish hero and one of the Knights of the Round Table featuring in the Matter of Britain....




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 Opera News
Reflections on Tristan
04/01/2007: 2,364 words, approx. 8 pages "The Tristan Project" - a collaborative exploration of Wagner's opera by Peter Sellars and video artist Bill Viola - returns to Los Angeles this month and arrives in New York in May. "One of the great things about Wagner's Tristan is that it...
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Tristan und Isolde
01/01/2008: 689 words, approx. 2 pages WAGNER Tristan und Isolde * Daniel Barenboim, cond; René Kollo (Tristan); Johanna Meier (Isolde); Matti Salminen (King Marke); Hermann Becht (Kurwenal); Hanna Schwarz (Brangäne); Robert Schunk (Melot, A young sailor); Martin Egel (Helmsman); Bayreuth Festival O & Ch * DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 000916309 (2 DVDs:...
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Review: 'Tristan Project' comes to N.Y.
5/6/2007: 606 words, approx. 2 pages Images of fire, floods and even naked bodies flash on a giant video screen above the stage as the concert hall fills with the sounds of Richard Wagner's doomed lovers playing out their tragic story.If you kept your eyes shut at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher...
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 The New York Observer
An Iconic Tenor\'d5s Secret Wish: To Tackle Most Demanding Role
9/11/2005: 1,069 words, approx. 4 pages In 1875, Clara Schumann, the widow of the composer Robert Schumann and the most celebrated female pianist of the 19th century, attended a performance of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and afterward wrote in her diary: “It is the most repulsive thing I ever saw or...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by E. M. R. Ditmas
17,954 words, approx. 60 pages
 In the essay below, Ditmas outlines the evidence for Béroul's knowledge of contemporary Cornwall, citing details of Cornish history and topography interwoven into the romance.
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Critical Essay by James Douglas Bruce
17,401 words, approx. 58 pages
 In the following essay, Bruce maintains that most modern critics agree that a “single primitive Tristan romance” is the source of all extant versions. Bruce then surveys those versions, and discusses the plot of the Tristan legend and its similarity to the Irish Diarmaid and Grainne legend.
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Critical Essay by Alberto Varvaro
12,564 words, approx. 42 pages
 In the following excerpt from his Beroul's Romance of Tristran, originally published in Italian in 1963, Varvaro examines the episodic structure of Tristran, noting that individual episodes are often preceded and followed by narrative pauses that serve to emphasize Béroul's theme in that section.


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Tristan by Gottfried von Straßburg | |
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