David Mamet: Language as Dramatic Action
- ISBN-10
- 0838633676
- ISBN-13
- 9780838633670
- Series
- David Mamet
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 241
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
- Author
- Anne Dean
Description
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 Mamet's best known plays are studied in detail: Sexual Perversity in Chicago, American Buffalo, A Life in the Theatre, Edmond, and Glengarry Glen Ross.
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