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Overview
What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? With bracing directness and aphoristic grace, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross delivers a thrillingly original treatise on his art.To David Mamet, human beings are drama-creating animals who impose narrative structures on everything from today's weather to next year's elections. Mamet distinguishes true drama from its false variants, unravels the infamous "Second-Act Problem," amd considers the mysterious persistence of the soliloquy. Three Uses of the Knife is an inspired guide for any playwright or theatergoer that doubles as a trenchant work of moral and aesthetic philosophy.
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- ISBN-13: 9780375704239
- ISBN-10: 037570423X
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: June 2000
- Dimensions: 8.01 x 5.25 x 0.45 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.27 pounds
- Page Count: 96
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