(Download PDF) Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama Writen By David Mamet
Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
By : David Mamet
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Book Synopsis :
The purpose of theater, like magic like religion? is to inspire cleansing awe. With bracing directness and aphoristic authority, one of our greatest living playwrights addresses the questions: What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet believes that the tendency to dramatize is essential to human nature, that we create drama out of everything from today?s weather to next year?s elections. But the highest expression of this drive remains the theater. ???????? With a cultural range that encompasses Shakespeare, Bretcht, and Ibsen, Death of a Salesman and Bad Day at Black Rock, Mamet shows us how to distinguish true drama from its false variants. He considers the impossibly difficult progression between one act and the next and the mysterious function of the soliloquy. The result, in Three Uses of the Knife, is an electrifying treatise on the playwright?s art that is also a strikingly original work of moral and
Book Detail :
Author : David Mamet
Pages : 96 pages
Publisher : Vintage
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 037570423X
ISBN-13 : 9780375704239
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