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.
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.
Christopher Bigsby, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, is an award winning academic, novelist and biographer.
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General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements A note on the texts 1. Beginnings 2. Story and anti-story 3. Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Woods 4. American Buffalo 5. The Water Engine, A Life in the Theatre 6. The Culture of Narcissism: Edmond 7. Glengarry, Glen Ross 8. Conclusions Notes Bibliography
General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements A note on the texts 1. Beginnings 2. Story and anti-story 3. Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Woods 4. American Buffalo 5. The Water Engine, A Life in the Theatre 6. The Culture of Narcissism: Edmond 7. Glengarry, Glen Ross 8. Conclusions Notes Bibliography
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