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Civil War and Civil Discord: Theatrical Representation of the Common Will and the Single Heart in the Terrible Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Gordon Armstrong
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The goal of this series of articles is to examine the nature of twentieth-century civil war and civil discord in theatrical representations and the conditions of performance by listening to the words of playwrights, scholars, performers, politicians and theatre historians in America, Africa, and Europe.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , Spring 1998 , pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1998

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