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Thu, 7 Jun 2007 6:09:38 PST

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Fifty-One Tales

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 5:46:57 PST

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Without doubt Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in twentieth century. His fiction is an acknowledged influence on entire generations of writers, ranging from H.P. Lovecraft to James Branch Cabell, from Clark Ashton Smith to Lin Carter. Although many of his most famous stories are longer in length, the miniature portraits of Fifty-One Tales (originally publish ...

The Book of Wonder

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 5:46:57 PST

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The Book of Wonder is Dunsany at his peak of his talent. The stories here are a lush tapestry of language, conjuring images of people, places, and things which cannot possibly exist, yet somehow ring true. They are, in short, full of wonder. Together with Dunsany's other major collections, A Dreamer's Tales and Tales of Three Hemispheres, they are a necessary part of any fantasy collection.

Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 5:46:54 PST

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From the director of "Batman" and "Beetlejuice" came "Nightmare Before Christmas"--the first ever to employ stop-action animation and earning over $60 million. This color volume is the perfect companion for fans of Tim Burton, his film, and filmmaking. Illustrations. [예스24 제공]

Burton on Burton

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 5:46:50 PST

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A revised edition of the only book to explore the unique brilliance of director Tim Burton's work, including a new chapter on the making of Sleepy Hollow. Still only in his thirties, Tim Burton has established himself in the past fifteen years as one of the great visionaries of film. With the Batman films, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, and, most rec ...

Travels in the Scriptorium

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 5:46:50 PST

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An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and tal ...

Decline and Fall

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 5:46:47 PST

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Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman. Within the book's unparalleled, rampant satire roam at will such characters as the Hon. Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde, Viscount Tangent, the utterly helpless hero, Paul Pennyfeather, st ...

Stop Motion

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 5:46:47 PST

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To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole world: how to make a character, how to make that character live and be happy or sad. You need to create four walls around them, a landscape, the sun and moon - a whole life for them. You have to get inside that puppet and first make it live, then make it perform. Susannah Shaw provides the first truly practical introduction to the c ...

The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 5:46:47 PST

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"As a writer of satiric and comic stories, Evelyn Waugh remains unmatched among modern writers." -New York Times Book Review For the first time, all of Evelyn Waugh's stories-thirty-nine marvelous works of short fiction spanning his entire career-are brought together in a single volume. The result: a book of brilliant entertainments. The stories range from delightfully barbed portraits of the B ...

The World is Flat

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 5:46:46 PST

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The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization a flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have connected all over the planet, levelling the playing field as never before, so that each of us is potenti ...

Pattern Hatching

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 5:46:46 PST

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Software developers now recognize the value of design patterns in helping build better software more efficiently. As a result, design patterns have become extremely popular in the software development community. Pattern Hatching explains and enhances the information from the seminal work in the field, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. The hands-on approach offered by ...

The Portable Oscar Wilde

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 5:46:46 PST

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Includes the following works: Novels--The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays--Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings--De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance.

Livro de Ouro da MPB

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:16 PST

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Ruth Rocha Conta a Ilíada

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Kabuki

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Para o Ator

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Todos os Fogos o Fogo

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100 Poemas Essenciais da Língua Portuguesa

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A Dama do Cachorrinho e Outros Contos

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The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:16 PST

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This volume of specially commissioned essays explores the world of Anton Chekhov and the creation, performance and interpretation of his works. The Companion begins with an examination of Chekhov's life and his Russia. Later film versions and adaptations of Chehov's works are analyzed, with insights also offered on acting Chekhov, by Ian McKellen, and directing Chekhov, by Trevor Nunn and Leonid ...

A Life in Letters

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:16 PST

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From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, Chekhov wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspondents, including family and friends, his publisher and fellow writers - not to mention actresses. These letters tell the story of Chekhov's life as a man and a writer and he emerges from them as a tough, generous, life-enhancing, and enigmatic character.

Contos e Poemas para Crianças Inteligentes de Todas as Idades - Vol. 3

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:16 PST

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Contos e Novelas

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Microfísica do Poder

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Isto Não é um Cachimbo

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20 Plays of the No Theatre

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Madame de Sade

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Azul do Filho Morto, O

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Erotismo, O

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Olhos de Madeira

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Julgamento de Sócrates, O

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The Moon and How to Observe It

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:16 PST

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This revolutionary new book is written for practical amateur astronomers who not only want to observe, but want to know the details of exactly what they are looking at. The Moon is the most commonly observed of all astronomical objects. This is the first book to deal equally with the Moon itself - its formation, geology, and history - as well as the practical aspects of observation. The concept ...

Titus Andronicus

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:16 PST

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A volume in The New Cambridge Shakespeare, newly edited to the meticulous standard for which this series has become known, this edition of Titus Andronicus includes an extensive introduction that leads the reader through the full spectrum of contemporary criticism of the play, major modern productions, and its performance history. Appendices explore how the play might have been performed at the R ...

Folclore Nacional I

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:16 PST

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A Bíblia em Ordem Cronológica

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Contando Histórias em Versos

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A pedra do meio-dia, ou, Artur e Isadora

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O homem artificial

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Sagarana

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Nove contos que revolucionaram a literatura regionalista no Brasil. Em histórias como "O burrinho pedrês", "Corpo fechado" e "A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga", o sertão mineiro cria vida na linguagem mágica inventada pelo gênio de Guimarães Rosa.

Sem Tesão Não Há Solução

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:16 PST

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 6

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The Portable Walt Whitman

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:16 PST

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THE BEST AND MOST REPRESENTATIVE ONE-V0LUME EDITION OF WHITMAN EVER PUT TOGETHER - THE NEW YORKER.

Casa-Grande e Senzala - Edição Comemorativa

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:16 PST

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Ame e Dê Vexame

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A Vida Como Ela é...

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:15 PST

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'A vida como ela é...' era um conto que Nelson Rodrigues escrevia diariamente para Última Hora, o jornal de Samuel Wainer. Durante dez anos, de 1951 a 1961, Nelson criou quase 2000 histórias de amor, paixão e morte em torno de um tema único e obsessivo - o adultério. Elas o tornaram popularíssimo, mas consolidaram a reputação de 'tarado' que os conservadores já lhe atribuíam por suas peças de tea ...

O anjo pornográfico

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:15 PST

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Álbum de Família

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Vestido de Noiva

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Tartuffe

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Como Desenhar Mangá - Vol. 1

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Germinal

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O Nascimento da Tragédia

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Primeiro livro de Nietzsche, 'O nascimento da tragédia' foi publicado em 1872. Obra de um jovem professor de letras clássicas, despertou polêmica pelo seu caráter pessoal e pela ousadia de sua abordagem - desafiava a concepção tradicional dos gregos como povo sereno e simples e exaltava a ópera de Wagner como renovadora do espírito alemão, numa singular mistura de reconstrução histórica, intuição ...

Aurora

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Contos de Fadas

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A Loucura de Isabella

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Santos e Canalhas

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Ziembinski e o teatro brasileiro

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História concisa do teatro brasileiro

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Panorama do teatro brasileiro

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Nelson Rodrigues, evangelista

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Alceste Electra Hipólito

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Reacionário

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Teatro completo de Nelson Rodrigues

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Teatro Da Obsess~ao

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Jogos para atores e não-atores

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Plínio Marcos

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Robert Lepage

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Robert Lepage is one of the geniuses of the international stage. He and his collaborators have thrilled and moved audiences with elegant scripts, incomparable acting and stunning visual effects in such personal works as Tectonic Plates, The Dragon's Trilogy, Needles and Opium and The Seven Streams of the River Ota; versions of world classics like Strindberg's A Dream Play and Shakespeare's The Te ...

Seven Streams of the River Ota

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:15 PST

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"Of all Lepage's magic boxes, this is the masterpiece" (Independent on Sunday) Early one August morning in 1945, several kilos of uranium dropped over Japan changed the course of human history. Fifty years later, Hiroshima's vitality is striking: the city where survival itself seemed unimaginable today incarnates the notion of renaissance. Robert Lepage and Ex Machina's The Seven Streams of the ...

A Method to Their Madness

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:15 PST

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Visit the training grounds of Brando, Pacino, and Dean in this essential, "richly detailed history"-Backstage. For decades, in one small room on West Forty-fourth Street in Manhattan, Lee Strasberg ran the Actors Studio, where dozens of acclaimed actors absorbed a technique that became known as the "Method." Based on firsthand observations and numerous interviews, Hirsch's examination of the Stud ...

Os dois corpos do rei

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:15 PST

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O rei não tem apenas um corpo. Além do corpo natural, essencialmente igual ao de qualquer pessoa, ele possui um corpo místico. Ernst Kantorowicz focaliza neste livro a doutrina dos "dois corpos do rei", amplamente aceita na Inglaterra absolutista do século XVI, e como derivou de conceitos adotados pelos teólogos da Idade Média para caracterizar a Igreja ou o próprio Cristo. Analisando com precisã ...

Flor de obsessão

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Teatro Nô e o Ocidente, O

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Antígona

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A Gaivota

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Divina Comédia

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The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:15 PST

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This extraordinary play, which swept Europe before coming to America, is based on two historical truths: the infamous Marquis de Sade was confined in the lunatic asylum of Charenton, where he staged plays; and the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday at the height of the Terror during the French Revolution. But this play-within-a-play is not historical drama. ...

Confissões de uma Máscara

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:15 PST

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Koo-chan vive um momento de conflito interior no Japão do entreguerras. No começo da adolescência, tem fantasias que combinam impulso sexual e violência sado-masoquista, desejo e morbidez. O rapaz chega a imaginar um 'teatro da morte', em que jovens lutadores se enfrentariam como gladiadores, exclusivamente para êxtase do próprio Koo-chan. À medida que avança na adolescência - e a Segunda Guerra ...

Hamlet in Pieces

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Between 1995 and 1996, three highly unusual shows were produced by three celebrated figures in world theatre: "Qui Est La", directed by Peter Brook; "Elsinore", directed by Robert Lepage; and "Hamlet - A Monologue", directed by Robert Wilson. Each was a version - at least in part - of Shakespeare's "Hamlet", although none treated the show in anything like an orthodox manner. This book is in part ...

Danças Dramáticas do Brasil

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The Art & Craft of Playwriting

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:14 PST

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Jeffrey Hatcher knows the nuts and bolts of writing for the theater. Here, he shares his views on it all - from building tension and plotting a scene, right down to moving a character from one side of the stage to the other. From crafting an intriguing beginning to delivering a satisfying ending. In Hatcher's one-on-one discussions with acclaimed American playwrights Lee Blessing, Marsha Norman ...

Ecce Homo

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A Conquista da Felicidade

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Dicionário de Lugares Imaginários

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Medéia; Hipólito; as Troianas

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Auto-Engano

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Genealogia da Moral

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A 'Genealogia da moral', escrita como complemento a 'Além do bem e do mal', ocupa um lugar de destaque entre as obras de Nietzsche. Os três ensaios que a compõem tratam, sob ângulos diversos, da origem de nossos conceitos morais. Interpretando a evolução da ética como uma história da crueldade, Nietzsche critica as mais caras ideologias da tradição religiosa e filosófica ocidental - a compaixão, ...

Além do Bem e do Mal

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Nietzsche considerava "Além do bem e do mal" seu livro mais importante e mais abrangente. Quase todos os temas de sua filosofia madura estão presentes — o perspectivismo, a vontade de poder e suas ramificações, a crítica da moralidade, a psicologia da religião e a definição de um tipo de homem nobre. Há também aforismos sobre arte e sexualidade, caracterizações de vários povos e países e muitas o ...

Libertação Animal

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Guerreiros Do Sol

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Eu a Amava

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How to Write Funny

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Combining classic and original articles with ten full-length interviews from famous (and very funny!) authors, including Dave Barry, P.J. O'Rourke, Jennifer Crusie, Tom Bodett, Bill Bryson, Joe R. Landsdale, Roy Blount and others, How to Write Funny teaches writers how to sharpen their sense of humor in their writing. Readers will discover how to add humor to any kind of writing from short storie ...

The Dramatist's Toolkit

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:40:14 PST

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In The Dramatist's Toolkit, playwright and Backstage columnist Jeff Sweet offers an intensive and practical guide to being a working playwright. In this informative guide, Sweet discusses such matters as: The building blocks of playwriting How characters relate to one another The differences and similarities between musicals and plays Screenwriting vs. playwriting and much more! Jeff Swee ...

Ser Ator

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Três Usos da Faca

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Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

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In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. "The Pillars of the Community" (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner's struggle to hide the sins of his past at the expense of another man's reputation, while in "The Wild Duck" (1884) an idealist, be ...

The Joy of Drawing

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On Acting

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Beijo no Asfalto

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Técnica da Representação Teatral

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Pouco Amor Não é Amor

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