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3 uses of the knife : on the nature and purpose of drama / David Mamet.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2000.Edition: 1st Vintage books edDescription: 87 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 037570423X
  • 9780375704239
Other title:
  • Three uses of the knife
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 808.2 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1631 .M26 2000
Other classification:
  • HU 4442
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The wind-chill factor -- 2. Second act problems -- 3. Three uses of the knife.
Summary: 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, and 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. - Publisher.
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Includes index.

Originally published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©1998.

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1. The wind-chill factor -- 2. Second act problems -- 3. Three uses of the knife.

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, and 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. - Publisher.

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