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Shakespeare is notorious for disappearing from his plays, but Wagner is everywhere in his operas.

Whether or not he is that good, there is surely a problem that arises insistently about Wagner but not Michelangelo or Mozart or, least of all, about Shakespeare: that of getting the art clear of the artist. (The Ring) is enough in itself to place Wagner alongside Shakespeare, Michelangelo and Mozart.” If you don’t think Wagner is that good, you won’t like Wagner and Philosophy, Bryan Magee’s new book about him. For many of us, they are indispensable art among the defining achievements of the Western tradition. Wagner, bloody Wagner will we ever have done with the man? I don’t suppose that we’ll ever have done with his operas.