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  • An Actor's Work on a Role An Actor's Work on a Role
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    An Actor's Work on a Role

     An Actor's Work on a Role is Konstantin Stanislavsky's classic exploration of the rehearsal process, applying the techniques of his seminal actor training system to the task of bringing life and truth to one's role. Originally published over half a...
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  • Motion Picture Series and Sequels Motion Picture Series and Sequels
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    Motion Picture Series and Sequels

    In 1989 alone, for example, there were some forty-five major motion pictures which were sequels or part of a series. The film series phenomenon crosses all genres and has been around since the silent film era. This reference guide, in alphabetical order,...
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  • Greek Tragedy into Film Greek Tragedy into Film
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    Greek Tragedy into Film

    If Greek tragedy is sometimes regarded as a form long dead and buried, both theatre producers and film directors seem slow to accept its interment. Originally published in 1986, this book reflects the renewed interest in questions of staging the Greek...
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  • On Directing Shakespeare On Directing Shakespeare
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    On Directing Shakespeare

    For producers and directors planning a production, several questions inevitably arise: Which play is appropriate for the contemporary audience? Should the text and setting be altered? Twelve leading contemporary directors answer these questions in...
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  • Cinema and Ireland Cinema and Ireland
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    Cinema and Ireland

    This was the first comprehensive study of film production in Ireland from the silent period to the present day, and of representations of Ireland and 'Irishness' in native, British, and American films. It remains an authority on the topic. The book...
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  • Film and the Working Class Film and the Working Class
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    Film and the Working Class

    Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle, and discusses them within the context of the debate on...
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  • Filming Literature Filming Literature
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    Filming Literature

    This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and considers the contribution to the cinema made...
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  • Directors and Directions Directors and Directions
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    Directors and Directions

    This is a study of nine key film-makers who came into prominence in the early '70s: Claude Chabrol, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lindsay Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey, Satyajit Ray, Miklos Jancsó, and Dušan Makavejev - representing...
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  • Acting Shakespeare Acting Shakespeare
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    Acting Shakespeare

    How did the actors for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays make his characters come to life, how did they convey his words? Can modern directors, actors, and even library readers of Shakespeare learn from them?Creating character and making the Elizabethan...
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  • The Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema The Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema
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    The Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema

    As a rapidly aging continent, Europe increasingly depends on the successful integration of migrants. Unfortunately, contemporary political and media discourses observe and frequently also support the development of nationalist, eurosceptic and xenophobic...
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  • Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights
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    Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights

    This book  demonstrates the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the twentieth century, tracing ideological change over time in the reception of US mainstream plays taking HIV/AIDS as their topic from 1985 to 2000. This...
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  • Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World
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    Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World

    Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World presents a radical re-examination of the ways in which demographic shifts will impact theater and performance culture in the twenty-first century. Editor Chinua Thelwell brings together the revealing insights...
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  • The Civil Code of the Russian Federation The Civil Code of the Russian Federation
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    The Civil Code of the Russian Federation

    This title was first published in 1997:  This is the definitive English translation of the new Russian Civil Code (Parts 1 and 2), often referred to as "the second Russian Constitution". The Civil Code of the Russian Federation is the result of a...
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  • Global Insights on Theatre Censorship Global Insights on Theatre Censorship
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    Global Insights on Theatre Censorship

    Theatre has always been subject to a wide range of social, political, moral, and doctrinal controls, with authorities and social groups imposing constraints on scripts, venues, staging, acting, and reception. Focusing on a range of countries and...
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  • The Western in the Global South The Western in the Global South
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    The Western in the Global South

    The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions...
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  • Global Glam and Popular Music Global Glam and Popular Music
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    Global Glam and Popular Music

    This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective. Focus is given to a number of representative artists, bands, and movements, as well as...
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  • Food and Theatre on the World Stage Food and Theatre on the World Stage
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    Food and Theatre on the World Stage

    Putting food and theatre into direct conversation, this volume focuses on how food and theatre have operated for centuries as partners in the performative, symbolic, and literary making of meaning. Through case studies, literary analyses, and performance...
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  • The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama
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    The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama

    This is the first volume to focus specifically on Rabindranath Tagore's dramatic literature, visiting translations and adaptations of Tagore's drama, and cross-cultural encounters in his works. As Asia's first Nobel Laureate, Tagore's highly original...
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  • American Media and the Memory of World War II American Media and the Memory of World War II
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    American Media and the Memory of World War II

    For three generations of Americans, World War II has been a touchstone for the understanding of conflict and of America's role in global affairs. But if World War II helped shape the perception of war for Americans, American media in turn shape the...
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  • Disability and Digital Television Cultures Disability and Digital Television Cultures
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    Disability and Digital Television Cultures

    Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and media, examining disability in the context of digital television access, representation and reception.Television, as a...
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  • Reading and Writing a Screenplay Reading and Writing a Screenplay
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    Reading and Writing a Screenplay

    Reading and Writing a Screenplay takes you on a journey through the many possible ways of writing, reading and imagining fiction and documentary projects for cinema, television and new media. It explores the critical role of a script as a document to be...
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  • The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos
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    The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos

    The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos outlines the story of the Athenian-based Attis Theatre and the way its founder and director, Theodoros Terzopoulos, introduced bio-energetic presences of the body on the stage, in an attempt to redefine and...
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  • Auditioning for Musical Theatre Auditioning for Musical Theatre
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    Auditioning for Musical Theatre

    Auditioning for Musical Theatre demystifies the process of giving the best possible professional audition for a role in a musical. It is the result of Denny Berry's own experience, sitting "behind the audition desk" for 30 years of professional Broadway...
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  • Portraits in Early Modern English Drama Portraits in Early Modern English Drama
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    Portraits in Early Modern English Drama

    Portraits in Early Modern English Drama studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in early modern English drama. Emanuel Stelzer considers this theory from the Elizabethan age up to the closing...
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  • The Secret Life of Theater The Secret Life of Theater
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    The Secret Life of Theater

    What is the secret DNA of theater? What makes it unique from its sister arts? Why was it invented? Why does it persist? And now, in such an advanced technological age, why do we still feel compelled to return to a mode of expression that was invented...
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  • Music and Sound in Silent Film Music and Sound in Silent Film
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    Music and Sound in Silent Film

    Despite their name, the silent films of the early cinematic era were frequently accompanied by music and other sound elements of many kinds, including mechanical instruments, live performers, and audience sing-alongs. The 12 chapters in this concise...
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  • Transmission in Motion Transmission in Motion
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    Transmission in Motion

    Transmission in Motion examines a selection of extraordinary dance digitization projects 'from the inside', presenting in-depth analyses by the practitioners, artists and collectives involved in their development. These studies are framed...
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  • The Strategic Producer The Strategic Producer
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    The Strategic Producer

    Today's technologies and economic models won't settle for a conventional approach to filmmaking.　The Strategic Producer: On the Art and Craft of Making Your First Feature combines history, technology, aesthetics, data, decision-making strategies, and...
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  • The Routledge Dance Studies Reader The Routledge Dance Studies Reader
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    The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

    The Routledge Dance Studies Reader has been expanded and updated, giving readers access to thirty-seven essential texts that address the social, political, cultural, and economic impact of globalization on embodiment and choreography.　These...
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  • The Screenwriters Taxonomy The Screenwriters Taxonomy
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    The Screenwriters Taxonomy

    In The Screenwriters Taxonomy, award-winning screenwriter and educator Eric R. Williams offers a new collaborative approach for creative storytellers to recognize, discuss and reinvent storytelling paradigms. Williams presents seven different aspects of...
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  • Migrants in Contemporary Spanish Film Migrants in Contemporary Spanish Film
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    Migrants in Contemporary Spanish Film

    During the last two decades Spain has undergone an unprecedented transformation from being a country of emigrants to receiving a significant number of migrants from all around the world. This book focuses on the analysis of documentaries and fiction...
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  • Spanish-Language Television in the United States Spanish-Language Television in the United States
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    Spanish-Language Television in the United States

    Since its introduction in the early 1960s, Spanish-language television in the United States has grown in step with the Hispanic population. Industry and demographic projections forecast rising influence through the 21st century. This book traces U.S...
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  • Shakespeare's Heartbeat Shakespeare's Heartbeat
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    Shakespeare's Heartbeat

    Children on the autistic spectrum experience varying degrees of difficulties; all of which can be understood as a disassociation of mind and body. Expressing feelings, making eye contact, keeping a steady heartbeat and recognizing faces are all part of...
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  • Le Salon De Madame Helvetius, Book 1-3 (1894) Le Salon De Madame Helvetius, Book 1-3 (1894)
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    Le Salon De Madame Helvetius, Book 1-3 (1894)

    Le Salon de Madame Helvetius est une s�����rie de trois livres publi�����s en 1894 par l'auteur fran�����ais Antoine Guillois. L'histoire se d�����roule dans le Paris du 18�����me si�����cle et suit la vie de Madame Helvetius, une femme de la haute...
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  • Le Theatre Des Chinois (1886) Le Theatre Des Chinois (1886)
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    Le Theatre Des Chinois (1886)

    Le livre ""Le Th����������tre des Chinois"" (1886) de Tcheng-Ki-Tong, M. est une exploration fascinante du th����������tre chinois traditionnel. L'auteur examine les diff�����rents genres de th����������tre chinois, tels que le th����������tre de...
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  • Le Theatre En France, Part 1 Le Theatre En France, Part 1
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    Le Theatre En France, Part 1

    Le livre ""Le Th����������tre en France, Partie 1: Le Th����������tre Pendant le Moyen �����ge (1877)"" �����crit par Adolphe D'Avril est une �����tude historique du th����������tre en France pendant le Moyen �����ge. L'auteur examine les diff�����rentes...
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  • I Teatri Di Roma Nel Secolo Decimosettimo (1888) I Teatri Di Roma Nel Secolo Decimosettimo (1888)
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    I Teatri Di Roma Nel Secolo Decimosettimo (1888)

    ""I Teatri di Roma nel Secolo Decimosettimo"" ����� un libro scritto nel 1888 da Alessandro Ademollo che esplora la storia dei teatri di Roma nel XVII secolo. Il libro analizza l'evoluzione della scena teatrale romana durante il periodo barocco,...
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  • Le Theatre A Cote (1894) Le Theatre A Cote (1894)
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    Le Theatre A Cote (1894)

    Le livre ""Le Th����������tre ����� C�����t�����"" �����crit par Adolphe Aderer en 1894 est un recueil de pi�����ces de th����������tre en fran�����ais. Le livre comprend trois pi�����ces, chacune avec un th�����me diff�����rent. La premi�����re...
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  • Le Theatre De Saint-Cyr, 1689-1792 (1876) Le Theatre De Saint-Cyr, 1689-1792 (1876)
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    Le Theatre De Saint-Cyr, 1689-1792 (1876)

    Le livre intitul����� ""Le Th����������tre De Saint-Cyr, 1689-1792"" a �����t����� �����crit par Achille Taphanel en 1876. Ce livre traite de l'histoire du th����������tre de Saint-Cyr, qui a �����t����� fond����� en 1686 par Madame de Maintenon, la...
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  • Il Novellatore V1, Part 1 Il Novellatore V1, Part 1
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    Il Novellatore V1, Part 1

    Il Novellatore V1, Parte 1: Periodico Mensuale (1872) ����� un libro pubblicato dalla Tipografia Barbera Publisher. Questo libro ����� la prima parte di una serie di periodici mensili che contiene una raccolta di racconti e novelle scritti da vari autori...
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  • Il Libro Dei Monologhi (1891) Il Libro Dei Monologhi (1891)
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    Il Libro Dei Monologhi (1891)

    Il Libro Dei Monologhi (1891) ����� un'opera scritta da Luigi Rasi che raccoglie una serie di monologhi teatrali. Questo libro ����� considerato un classico della letteratura teatrale italiana e rappresenta un importante contributo alla scena teatrale...
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  • Das Norddeutsche Theater (1872) Das Norddeutsche Theater (1872)
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    Das Norddeutsche Theater (1872)

    Das Norddeutsche Theater (1872) ist ein Buch von Heinrich Laube, das sich mit der Geschichte des Theaters im n������rdlichen Deutschland besch�����ftigt. Das Buch enth�����lt eine umfassende Darstellung der Theaterlandschaft in Norddeutschland im 19...
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  • Le Theatre Au Mans Au XVIII Siecle (1900) Le Theatre Au Mans Au XVIII Siecle (1900)
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    Le Theatre Au Mans Au XVIII Siecle (1900)

    Le livre ""Le Th����������tre au Mans au XVIIIe si�����cle"" �����crit par La Rivi�����re, Robert Deschamps a �����t����� publi����� en 1900. Ce livre est une �����tude approfondie sur l'histoire du th����������tre au Mans pendant le XVIIIe si�����cle...
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  • Das Moderne Musikdrama (1884) Das Moderne Musikdrama (1884)
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    Das Moderne Musikdrama (1884)

    Das Moderne Musikdrama (1884) ist ein Buch des deutschen Musikwissenschaftlers Ludwig Nohl. In diesem Werk untersucht Nohl die Entstehung und Entwicklung des modernen Musikdramas, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Werke von Richard Wagner. Er beschreibt...
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  • Le Roman De Moliere (1863) Le Roman De Moliere (1863)
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    Le Roman De Moliere (1863)

    Le Roman De Moliere (1863) est un livre �����crit par Edouard Fournier. Il s'agit d'une biographie romanc�����e de la vie de Moli�����re, l'un des plus grands dramaturges fran�����ais du XVIIe si�����cle. Le livre raconte l'histoire de sa vie, depuis sa...
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  • Etudes Sur Le Theatre Contemporain (1887) Etudes Sur Le Theatre Contemporain (1887)
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    Etudes Sur Le Theatre Contemporain (1887)

    Le livre ""Etudes Sur Le Theatre Contemporain"" (1887) de Lefranc, Francois est une analyse approfondie du th����������tre contemporain de l'�����poque. Dans cet ouvrage, Lefranc examine les diff�����rentes formes de th����������tre et les tendances...
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  • Le Tartuffe Des Comediens (1896) Le Tartuffe Des Comediens (1896)
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    Le Tartuffe Des Comediens (1896)

    Le Tartuffe des Com�����diens (1896) de Regnier, P. est une pi�����ce de th����������tre en fran�����ais qui met en sc�����ne les personnages de Moli�����re, mais avec une touche de modernit����� et d'humour. Le personnage principal, Tartuffe, est un...
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  • Le Theatre De Strasbourg Et La Dotation Apffel (1884) Le Theatre De Strasbourg Et La Dotation Apffel (1884)
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    Le Theatre De Strasbourg Et La Dotation Apffel (1884)

    Le livre ""Le Th����������tre de Strasbourg et la Dotation Apffel (1884)"" de Gustave Fischbach est une �����tude sur l'histoire du th����������tre de Strasbourg et sur la dotation Apffel, qui a permis de financer la construction d'un nouveau...
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