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"A necessary collection about a most necessary playwright." -- Choice
A necessary collection about a most necessary playwright.
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A necessary collection about a most necessary playwright.
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The 12 original and two classic essays offer a dialectic on performance and structure, and substantially advance our knowledge of this seminal playwright. The commentaries examine feminism, pernicious nostalgia, ethnicity, the mythological land motif, the discourse of anxiety, gendered language, and Mamet's vision of America, providing insights on the theatricality, originality, and universality of the work. Although the dominant focus is on Glengarry Glen Ross, several essays look at the play against the background of Mamet's Edmund, Reunion, and American Buffalo, whereas others find fascinating parallels in Emerson, Baudrillard, Conrad, Miller, and Churchill. The book also includes an interview with Sam Mendes, the director of the highly acclaimed 1994 revival of Glengarry Glen Ross in London, conducted specifically for this collectio. A chronology of major productions and the most current and comprehensive bibliography of secondary references from 1983-1995 complete the volume.
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The detective story in Glengarry Glen Ross is literally marginalized: the office break-in occurs in the interval between the play's two acts, and the investigation in act 2 is conducted in a room off-stage by a detective who barely appears. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pitchmen caught, uninflected cuts, older salesmen, masculine ethos, marshal the leads, rob the office, fuck talk, absent woman, day without fear, proven man, social dialogue, male mythologies, verbal authority, discourse coherence, gang comedy, ecstatic form, sales board, sales contest, actual talk, sales competition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet, New York, American Buffalo, Leslie Kane, Top Girls, Willy Loman, Glen Ross Farms, Shelly Levene, Arthur Miller, Harriett Nyborg, Hersh Zeifman, Jinny Lingk, Anne Dean, Jerry Graff, Ricky Roma, American Express, James Lingk, Jean Baudrillard, Joe Mantegna, Glengarry Highlands, Grove Press, Frank Rich, National Theatre, Dennis Carroll New!
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The detective story in Glengarry Glen Ross is literally marginalized: the office break-in occurs in the interval between the play's two acts, and the investigation in act 2 is conducted in a room off-stage by a detective who barely appears. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pitchmen caught, uninflected cuts, older salesmen, masculine ethos, marshal the leads, rob the office, fuck talk, absent woman, day without fear, proven man, social dialogue, male mythologies, verbal authority, discourse coherence, gang comedy, ecstatic form, sales board, sales contest, actual talk, sales competition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet, New York, American Buffalo, Leslie Kane, Top Girls, Willy Loman, Glen Ross Farms, Shelly Levene, Arthur Miller, Harriett Nyborg, Hersh Zeifman, Jinny Lingk, Anne Dean, Jerry Graff, Ricky Roma, American Express, James Lingk, Jean Baudrillard, Joe Mantegna, Glengarry Highlands, Grove Press, Frank Rich, National Theatre, Dennis Carroll New!
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- Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play by David Mamet on 133 pages
- American Buffalo by David Mamet on 42 pages
- David Mamet (Contemporary Writers) by C. W. E. Bigsby on 16 pages
- House of Games by David Mamet on 12 pages
- Top Girls by Caryl Churchill on 9 pages
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- David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross: Text and Performance (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Leslie Kane on 18 pages
- Gender and Genre: Essays on David Mamet by Christopher Hudgins on 8 pages
- Weasels and Wisemen: Ethics and Ethnicity in the Work of David Mamet by Leslie Kane on 7 pages
- Weasels and Wisemen: Ethics and Ethnicity in the Work of David Mamet by Leslie Kane on 5 pages
- Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama by Ruby Cohn on page 52, page 80, and Back Matter
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