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Empathy in Modern Drama: Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera

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|Jul 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gth-2019-0016 | Journal eISSN: 2519-5808 | Journal ISSN: 0170-057X
Language: English, German
Page range: 159 - 171
Published on: Jul 25, 2019
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