David Mamet: Language as Dramatic Action

By Anne Dean

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611470897
• ISBN13: 9781611470895
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 241 Pages