Now he and translator Mike Poulton turn their attention to this earlier 1783 play, long considered as a landmark in the development of bourgeois tragedy.
In the early church, exchanges between two groups of choristers, or between the choir and a solo voice, led to the idea of dialogue, just as it had in the development of Greek tragedy.
In France, Amyot's translations were still being reprinted in the early 19th century, and their influence on the development of French classical tragedy equaled that of North's version on Shakespeare.
An account of the development of the theory of tragedy will reveal a resourcefulness in critical powers that can help to compensate, or occasionally even supersede, lapsing creative powers.
Although the authors are not engineers and hydrologists, their conclusions about how and where we develop are joining the growing cacophony of sustainable-growth proponents in calling for rational economic and development strategies to prevent this kind of tragedy from occurring again.
The enormous human toll of this tragedy spurred the development of the concept of inherently safer design (ISD), and several published studies have since demonstrated the application of ISD concepts to the Bhopal process.
The changes took decades, to be sure, but the tragedy spurred the development of fire and building regulations, the creation of labor and women's unions and a culture of real regulatory enforcement.
The less obvious aspects of war and science for example, the introduction of psychoanalysis into British medicine courtesy of shellshock are given their due, as well as the central Faustian tragedy of the development of the atom bomb.The bomb that graces the cover of the book has come to stand for the power of science.
Ms. Walker has vowed to channel the grief from the city's tragedy through the development of thousands of new apartments and a seat at the decision-making table for low-income residents, who are disproportionately black, and an end to "stop and frisk" policing.
I hope that as we enter the age of Zika, we can learn from our experience with rubella, that although the development of a vaccine to prevent the tragedy of CZS will prove life-saving, it's almost inevitable that eventually, someone somewhere will blame this miraculous substance for causing one or another of the world's ills.
