Three uses of the knife : on the nature and purpose of drama / David Mamet.
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TextSeries: Bloomsbury revelationsPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020Description: 64 pagesContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781350129016 (e-book)Subject(s): Drama | Theater | Acting | Literature | Literature: history & criticism | Literary essays | Plays, playscriptsGenre/Form: Online access: Click to view (365 credits) Also available in printed form ISBN 9781350128958Summary: Playwright, screenwriter, and poet David Mamet explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. In these three essays, he describes the ties that bind art to life, language to power, and shows the power of the theatre to keep us whole and human. Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this short but arresting series of essays, David Mamet explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. A celebration of the ties that bind art to life, Three Uses of the Knife is an enthralling read for anyone who has sat anxiously waiting for the lights to go up on Act 1. In three tightly woven essays of characteristic force and resonance, Mamet speaks about the connection of art to life, language to power, imagination to survival, public spectacle to private script. Self-assured and filled with autobiographical touches Three Uses of the Knife is a call to art and arms, a manifesto that reminds us of the singular power of the theatre to keep us sane, whole and human.
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Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Includes index.
Playwright, screenwriter, and poet David Mamet explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. In these three essays, he describes the ties that bind art to life, language to power, and shows the power of the theatre to keep us whole and human. Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this short but arresting series of essays, David Mamet explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. A celebration of the ties that bind art to life, Three Uses of the Knife is an enthralling read for anyone who has sat anxiously waiting for the lights to go up on Act 1. In three tightly woven essays of characteristic force and resonance, Mamet speaks about the connection of art to life, language to power, imagination to survival, public spectacle to private script. Self-assured and filled with autobiographical touches Three Uses of the Knife is a call to art and arms, a manifesto that reminds us of the singular power of the theatre to keep us sane, whole and human.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9781350128958
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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