GUIDANCE NOTES FOR THIRD (AND UPCOMING FOURTH) TALKS ON WAGNER'S MEISTERSINGER VON NUERNBERG

Since the ‘excursus’ from the reading of Nietzsche’s ‘Birth of Tragedy’ consisting in a supplementary analysis of Wagner’s Meistersinger looks like it is now stretching from three into four supplementary sessions, and the underlying argument becoming very complex indeed, I am posting these ‘guidance notes’ as an Ariadne’s Thread for anyone who feels they are getting lost in the labyrinth of my…