David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross

The 12 original and two classic essays offer a dialectic on performance and structure, and substantially advance our knowledge of this seminal playwright. The commentaries examine feminism, pernicious nostalgia, ethnicity, the mythological land motif, the discourse of anxiety, gendered language, and Mamet's vision of America, providing insights on the theatricality, originality, and universality of the work. Although the dominant focus is on "Glengarry Glen Ross, several essays look at the play against the background of Mamet's "Edmund, Reunion, and "American Buffalo, whereas others find fascinating parallels in Emerson, Baudrillard, Conrad, Miller, and Churchill. The book also includes an interview with Sam Mendes, the director of the highly acclaimed 1994 revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross in London, conducted specifically for this collectio. A chronology of major productions and the most current and comprehensive bibliography of secondary references from 1983-1995 complete the volume.

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Introduction, Leslie Kane Negative Creation: The Detective Story in Glengarry Glen Ross, Steven Price By indirections find directions out: Uninflected Cuts, Narrative Structure, and Thematic Statement in the Film Version ofGlengarry Glen Ross, Christopher C. Hudgins The Discourse of Anxiety, Anne Dean How To Do Things With Salesmen: David Mamet's Speech-Act Play, David Worster Men Among the Ruins, Robert H. Vorlicky Levene's Daughter: Positioning the Female in Glengarry Glen Ross, Dorothy H. Jacobs You're Exploiting My Space: Ethnicity, Spectatorship and the (Post)colonial Condition in Mukherjee's A Wife's Story and Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Deborah H. Geis The Marxist Child's Play of Mamet's Tough Guys and Churchill's Top Girls, David Kennedy Sauer Be What You Are: Identity and Morality in Edmond and Glengarry Glen Ross, Jon Tuttle David Mamet, Jean Baudrillard and the Performance of America, Elizabeth Klaver Visions of a Promised Land: David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross , Tony J. Stafford Things (Ex)Change: The Value of Money in Glengarry Glen Ross, Linda Dorff Pernicious Nostalgia in Glengarry Glen Ross, Richard Brucher A Japanese Glengarry Glen Ross, Robert T. Rolf A Conversation: Sam Mendes and Leslie Kane Bibliography of Glengarry Glen Ross: 1983-1995, David K. Sauer and Janice A. Sauer