The Plays, Screenplays and Films of David Mamet

by Price, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780230555358
• ISBN10: 0230555357
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

David Mamet is arguably the most important living American playwright. This Guide provides an up-to-date study of the key criticism on the full range of Mamet's work. It engages with his work in film as well as in the theatre, offering a synoptic overview of, and critical commentary on, the scholarly criticism of each play, screenplay or film.

Author Biography

STEVEN PRICE is Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Early Plays:Lakeboat(1970)

The Duck Variations(1972), andSexual Perversity in Chicago(1974)

American Buffalo(1975)

A Life in the Theatre(1977) andThe Water Engine(1977)

Other plays of the 1970s The Postman Always Rings Twice(1981),The Verdict(1982), andThe Untouchables(1986)

Edmond(1982)

Glengarry Glen Ross(1983)

The Shawl(1985) andPrairie du Chien(1979)

House of Games(1987)

Speed-the-Plow(1988)

Things Change(1988)

The 'Bobby Gould' Plays (1987-1991)

Homicide(1991)

Oleanna(1992)

The Cryptogram(1994)

The Spanish Prisoner(1997) and Contemporary Screenplays The Winslow Boy(1999) and After

Conclusion

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

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