3 uses of the knife : on the nature and purpose of drama /
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, poet, essayist, and director, David Mamet celebrates the absolute necessity of drama - and the experience of great plays - in our lurching attempts to make sense of ourselves and our world. In three tightly woven essays of characteristic force and res...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | Columbia lectures on American culture
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Table of Contents:
- The wind-chill factor
- The perfect ball game
- Anti-stratfordianism
- The problem play
- Letters of transit
- Second act problems
- Violence
- Self-censorship
- Three uses of the knife
- The eleven o'clock song
- The end of the play.