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Book SynopsisDavid Mamet is one of America's great dramatists and screenwriters. His plays include
Oleanna;
Glengarry Glen Ross, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award;
Speed-the-Plow; and
Sexual Perversity in Chicago, among others. His films include, as screenwriter,
The Postman Always Rings Twice,
The Verdict,
The Untouchables,
The Edge and
Wag the Dog, and as a writer/director,
House of Games,
Homicide,
Things Change ,
The Spanish Prisoner and
State and Main. He is also the author of children's books; books of essays; novels and a book on acting,
True and False.
Table of ContentsONE: The Wind-Chill Factor The Perfect Ball Game Anti-Stratfordianism The Problem Play Letters of Transit
TWO: Second Act Problems Violence Self-Censorship
THREE: Three Uses of the Knife The Eleven-O’Clock Song The End of the Play Index
