Leslie Kane's David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross: Text and Performance PDF

By Leslie Kane

ISBN-10: 0815318774

ISBN-13: 9780815318774

ISBN-10: 0815335903

ISBN-13: 9780815335900

The 12 unique and vintage essays supply a dialectic on functionality and constitution, and considerably increase our wisdom of this seminal playwright. The commentaries study feminism, pernicious nostalgia, ethnicity, the mythological land motif, the discourse of hysteria, gendered language, and Mamet's imaginative and prescient of the US, offering insights at the theatricality, originality, and universality of the paintings. even if the dominant concentration is on Glengarry Glen Ross, a number of essays examine the play opposed to the historical past of Mamet's Edmund, Reunion, and American Buffalo, while others locate attention-grabbing parallels in Emerson, Baudrillard, Conrad, Miller, and Churchill. The publication additionally contains an interview with Sam Mendes, the director of the hugely acclaimed 1994 revival of Glengarry Glen Ross in London, performed in particular for this collectio. A chronology of significant productions and the most up-tp-date and entire bibliography of secondary references from 1983-1995 whole the volume.

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