Routledge Revivals: David Mamet (1985)

by Christopher Bigsby

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138557129
• ISBN13: 9781138557123
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"