Studied Speech and The Duchess of Malfi: The Lost Arts of Rhetoric, Memory, and Death by Rory Loughnane

“…In particular, he focuses upon manuals about conduct, memory, rhetoric, and death, connecting their aims and objectives to the tragedy that unfolds in Webster’s play. He situates the Duchess’s tragic outcome in her failure to heed her brothers’ warning, and in mistaking their contrived ‘studied speech’ for something without substance. …”
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Le retour des communs by Benjamin Coriat

“…In addition to recalling the discussion that spread around the famous article of Hardin on the “Tragedy of the commons”, the emphasis is put on an essential but little-known episode of the history of the commons: the conference hold in Annapolis in 1983 at the inititiave of the NRC (National Research Council) to review the forms of ownership and rural exploitation in tropical countries that were at that time experiencing severe degradation and a fall in productivity. …”
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Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“…During the Second World War the Viennese Jewish playwright Fritz Hochwälder, then living in exile in Switzerland, followed in this tradition when he wrote his tragedy, Das heilige Experiment. It was a timely plea for toleration and religious freedom. …”
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Preventive vaccines for COVID-19. An expectant reality by Ana María Ramos Cedeño, Yeny Dueñas Pérez, Alicia del Rosario Ramírez Pérez

“…The high transmissibility and mortality, with the involvement of almost all the countries on the planet, without distinction between economic systems, it has unleashed a race to obtain a preventive vaccine that could stop the tragedy. However, its introduction into medical practice is a path that involves specific procedures and compliance with ethical standards. …”
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The covid-19 pandemic in vulnerable communities: the responses of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas by Dalia Maimon Schiray

“…With no specific policy on the part of the Brazilian government, this vulnerable population, supported by social organization present in the communities, adopted health preventive measures and benefited from donations of food and hygiene products that minimized the announced tragedy.…”
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The Poetics of Second Liberation by Vincent R. Ogoti

“… This article examines Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe as a fundamental text for understanding the complexities of decolonization in postcolonial contexts. …”
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La matière des images dans The Duchess of Malfi by Anne-Valérie Dulac

“…Why do some pictures become perfidious in the tragedy? The play recurrently offers descriptions of how images are designed, focusing on the very material from which they are made and upon which they are impressed. …”
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La contrainte comme artifice sur la scène anglaise contemporaine : Tom Stoppard, Martin Crimp, et Caryl Churchill by Élisabeth Angel-Perez

“…If there no longer is an adequacy between the tragic feeling and the form of tragedy, one has to elaborate new modes of tragic expression. …”
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De la voix au théâtre au théâtre de la voix : l’envers du décor poétique de Robert Browning by Yann Tholoniat

“…Robert Browning wrote seven plays : Strafford, King Victor and King Charles, The Return of the Druses, A Blot in the ‘Scutcheon, Colombe’s Birthday, Luria and A Soul’s Tragedy. Over a decade, between 1836 and 1846, and despite failures that would have been daunting for anyone, the young poet strove to write for the stage. …”
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FROM THE METAPHOR OF WATER TO CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEN ENESCU, EMINESCU, BLAGA AND THE ROMANIAN SPIRITUALITY by Olguţa LUPU

“…Of all the primordial elements, the symbol of water marks Enescu’s entire creation, illustrating the complexity of the relationship between man and nature: from the serene and melancholic pages of his youth, that broach the romantic genre of character miniature (barcarola), to the works characterized by a nostalgic and introspective component with a touch of memoir (in Childhood Impressions or The Villageoise Suite), all the way to the tragedy in Vox Maris – whose similarities with Oedipus require further investigation. …”
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Comments on Keyan Tomaselli’s "The 2022 Copyright Amendment Bill: Implications for the South African universities’ Research Economy" by Brian Wafawarowa

“… The tragedy of the deliberations on the Copyright Amendment Bill is the absence of critical and dispassionate engagement on the issues that are being raised by different interest groups. …”
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La violence sexuelle dans Mesure pour mesure by Yves Thoret

“…In Measure for Measure, written some twelve years later after this first revenge tragedy, Isabella dares to protest against her offender as she claims for law and justice. …”
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Retour sur le drame de l’Île des Diamants : l’investissement immobilier des grands projets urbains à Phnom-Penh by Gabriel Fauveaud

“…Finally, the Diamond Island tragedy reveals the antagonisms of the current urban politic and interrogates the capacity of the private investors to construct a sustainable city.…”
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Une innovation institutionnelle, la constitution des communs du logiciel libre by Pierre-André Mangolte

“…Today, free software has become a benchmark for resistance to the “tragedy of the anti-commons”. The sharing and reuse of source code are indeed principles opposed to the exclusive control of technical objects by individual owners. …”
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La catastrophe d’AZF by Karim Lahiani

“…The image of the site - a territory which emerged from the "subconsciousness" of the inhabitants of Toulouse during the decades preceding the disaster and which has subsequently become associated with the tragedy - is what the actors, decision makers and members of civil society, have tried to change during the years following the event. …”
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L’agonie de Raimundo, fils d’Unamuno, et le sentiment comique de la vie by Yves Roullière

“…In contrast, this study will attempt to show that Raimundo's traumatic and hard existence had a decisive influence on the main aspects of Unamuno's work: philosophical, mystical, poetic and fictional, particularly in his approach to tragedy and comedy, sentiment and love.…”
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Theoretical Aspects of Analysis of International Environmental Security by J. A. Rusakova

“…In particular, it analyzes the problem of negative social externalities, and the related concept of "tragedy of the commons." These problems create a fundamental obstacle to the implementation of environmental security at the global level. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Sorrow in Shakespeare’s Juliet and Homer’s Andromache by Sanjukta Chakraborty, Varun Gulati, Deepali Sharma

“…However, both these characters’ reactions toward their sorrows are what set them apart from one another; while one woman is idolized as the quintessential pinnacle of womanhood for all generations, the other is immortalized as the rebellious protagonist of a Shakespearean Romantic tragedy. …”
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Border Region Between Poland and Germany: Strengthened by the COVID-19 Pandemic by Steffen Fleßa, Julia Kuntosch

“…Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is a humanitarian tragedy with millions of deaths worldwide. However, this virus is also a tremendous economic challenge. …”
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