Table of Contents:
- 'Or strike at me now as I strangle thy knee' : a note on the text and translation / Stewart Spencer
- Wagner's revolutionary musical reforms / Barry Millington
- Thematic guide
- 'What shall we do for a ring?' / Barry Millington
- In pursuit of the purely human : the 'Ring' and its medieval sources / Elizabeth Magee
- Epiphany and apocalypse in the 'Ring' / Roger Hollinrake
- 'The world belongs to Alberich!' : Wagner's changing attitude towards the 'Ring' / Warren Darcy
- The ring of the Nibelung / translated by Stewart Spencer.