Routledge Revivals: David Mamet (1985)

By:

Christopher Bigsby

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge Revivals

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First published in 1985, C.W.E Bigsby examines the career and work of playwright David Mamet. Bigsby shows that Mamet is a fierce social critic, indicting an America corrupted at its core by myths of frontier individualism and competitive capitalism. Mamet has created plays whose bleak social vision and ironic metaphysics are redeemed, if at all, by the power of imagination. No American playwright before him has displayed the same sensitivity to language, detecting lyricism in the brutal incoherencies of every day speech and investing with meaning a contemporary aphasia. Few have offered dramatic metaphors of such startling and disturbing originality. Bigsby’s study is the first book to provide a thorough account of David Mamet’s life and career, as well as close analyses of individual plays.

Author Biography:

Christopher Bigsby, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, is an award winning academic, novelist and biographer.

Release date NZ

March 31st, 2021

Author

Christopher Bigsby

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

142

Series

Routledge Revivals

ISBN-13

9781138557123

Product ID

31919127

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