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Publisher: Oxford University PressISBN: 9780199535897Weight: 481 gDimensions: 196 x 129 x 26 mm
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many students will no doubt relish the fullness of Professor Levenson's notes.Indeed,they may often be particularly grateful for the care with which she directs readers to even fuller discussions to be found elsewhereProfessor Levenson provides an excellent and often very thought-provoking account of performance history,and many of her most interesting discussions and annotations relate to questions of staging,traditional,unusual,or possibleexcellent decision to include the whole of the Q1 text as well as Q2
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