The Rape of Lucretia, premier « opéra anglais » de Britten ?  by Gilles Couderc

“…The Rape of Lucretia is Britten’s second opera, composed in the wake of the popular success of Peter Grimes and amidst the composer’s difficulties in sustaining his ambitious project to restore English opera and to set up his own opera company despite the dire post-war economic context. …”
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Le viol de Lucrèce de Britten : un livret d’opéra qui revisite les fondamentaux du genre by Pascal Terrien

“…After composing Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten desired to go back to the basics of the genre. …”
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Le tribunal figural de la fiction expressionniste by Sylvain Louet

“…The faces are painted and grimed. The sets appear unfinished and awkward. We compare this ethical film to works by expressionist painters or engravers to examine how it judges its main protagonists and the evoked society, considering the Christian morality and that promoted by capitalism. …”
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New urban tourism in the Global South: The case of inner-city Johannesburg by Christian M. ROGERSON, Mitchell C.N. MALOVHA, Jayne M. ROGERSON

“…Arguably, new urban tourists in Johannesburg are experiencing ‘edgy tourism’ as they explore spaces of an inner-city which, in recent years, has a tarnished reputation as no-go zone because of its physical decline as well as crime and grime.…”
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On Atmospherics: Staging Stormzy and nonbinary thinking by Rachel Hann

“…Taking the UK Grime artist Stormzy’s performance at Glastonbury 2019 as a case study, this article investigates the tactics, technologies and processes revealed through the act of staging atmospheres. …”
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Smoke or no Smoke? Questions of Perspective in North and South by Mary Debrabant

“…For all its smoke and grime, the bustling factory town compares not unfavourably with the backwardness of rural England, the idle drawing-room life of London or torpid Oxford academia. …”
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