Actors, Directors, & Theater Professionals, U.S. & Canadian Drama - Literary Criticism

David Mamet: Language as Dramatic Action

Name: David Mamet: Language as Dramatic Action
Author: Anne Dean
ISBN: 9780838633670

by Anne Dean

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Overview

This book supports the claim that David Mamet is possibly the first true verse dramatist by examining in detail his celebrated use of language as dramatic action. Five of MametOs best known plays are studied in detail: Sexual Perversity in Chicago, American Buffalo, A Life in the Theatre, Edmond, and Glengarry Glen Ross.