Routledge Revivals: David Mamet (1985), 1st Edition

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.\nRoutledge Revivals: David Mamet (1985) 1st Edition is written by Christopher Bigsby and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Routledge Revivals: David Mamet (1985) are 9781351366885, 1351366882 and the print ISBNs are 9781138557123, 1138557129. Additional ISBNs include 9781138556942, 9781351366892, 9781315150659, 9781351366878.