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Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama Paperback - 2000
by David Mamet
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IT is in our nature to dramatize.
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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, Brecht, 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 aesthetic philosophy.
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- Title Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
- Author David Mamet
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date June 13, 2000
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780375704239 / 037570423X
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.25 x 0.45 in (20.35 x 13.34 x 1.14 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Drama, Drama - Technique
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00033387
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.2
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