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
language, detecting lyricism in the brutal incoherencies of every
day speech and investing with meaning a contemporary aphasia. Few
have offered dramatic metaphors of such startling and disturbing
originality. Bigsby's study is the first book to provide a thorough
account of David Mamet's life and career, as well as close analyses
of individual plays.
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