TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mamet,David
TI  - 3 uses of the knife: on the nature and purpose of drama 
SN  - 037570423X
AV  - PN1631 .M26 2000
U1  - 808.2 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Drama
KW  - Technique
KW  - gnd
KW  - fast
KW  - nli
KW  - Dramentechnik
KW  - Dramentheorie
KW  - Wirklichkeit
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes index; Originally published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©1998; P.B; P.B; 1. The wind-chill factor -- 2. Second act problems -- 3. Three uses of the knife
N2  - 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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random052/00033387.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random047/00033387.html
ER  -