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Research Articles

‘The closest and the farthest away’: telling intermedial spatial stories in National Theatre Live – the case of Julius Caesar

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Pages 296-317 | Received 13 Oct 2022, Accepted 18 Mar 2023, Published online: 06 Apr 2023

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