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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," amd 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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Crime & mystery

• Full title: Three Uses of the Knife
• Subtitle: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
• Author: David Mamet
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 87
• EAN: 9780375704239
• ISBN: 037570423X
• ID: 10985891
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 113 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2000

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