| Description |
1 online resource (174 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in modern drama |
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Studies in modern drama.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Poetics for Thugs; 2 "You'll Never Be without a Police Siren": Pinter and the Subject of Law; 3 Harold Pinter's "Before the Law"; 4 Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes: The Criminality of Indifference and the Failure of Empathy; 5 Comedy and Crime: Pinter's Primal Power; 6 Lost in the Funhouse: Spectacle and Crime in Pinter's Screenplay of Kafka's The Trial; 7 Lie Detectors: Pinter/Mamet and the Victorian Concept of Crime; 8 Gradations of Criminality in the Plays of David Mamet |
| Summary |
This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Mamet, David -- Criticism and interpretation
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Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 -- Motion picture plays
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Mamet, David -- Motion picture plays
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| SUBJECT |
Mamet, David fast |
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Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 fast |
| Subject |
Criminals in literature.
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Crime in literature.
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Crime in literature
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Criminals in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Screenplays
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004302469 |
| ISBN |
9780203642061 |
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0203642066 |
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1135883556 |
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9781135883553 |
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1135883564 |
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9781135883560 |
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1280177373 |
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9781280177378 |
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