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Biography of David Alan Mamet
Name: David Alan Mamet
Birth Date: November 30, 1947
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, playwright/dramatist, screenwriter, director/producer
David Alan Mamet
Playwright and screenwriter David Mamet is highly praised for his accurate rendering of American vernacular, through which he explores the relationship between language and behavior. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 30, 1947, he studied at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York.Mamet's first play to receive attention, The Duck Variations (1972), displays features common to much of his work: a fixed setting, few characters, a sparse plot, and dialogue that captures the rhythms and syntax of everyday speech. In this play, two elderly Jewish men sit on a park bench discussing a plethora of unrelated subjects. Mamet's next play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974), examines confusion and misconceptions surrounding relationships between men and women. While some reviewers found this work offensive and misogynistic, Julius Novick contended that the play "is a compassionate, rueful comedy about how difficult it is ... for men to give themselves …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…The first United States human-piloted space expedition was launched1966: United States troops entered Cambodia1974: Peter Shaffer's Equus was performed1978: Louise Brown, the first "test-tube baby," was born1992: Tony Kushner's play Angels in America was performed Further Reading Bigsby, C. W. E., David Mamet, Metheun, 1985.Bock, Hedwig, and Albert Wertheim, editors, Essays on Contemporary American Drama, 1981, Max Hueber, pp. 207-23.Carroll, Dennis, David Mamet, St. Martin's, 1987.Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series, Volume 3, Gale, 1986.Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 9, 1978, pp. 360-61; Volume 15, 1980, pp. 355-58; Volume 34, 1985, pp. 217-24; Volume 46, 1988, pp. 245-56.Kane, Leslie, editor, David Mamet: A Casebook, Garland, 1991.------, David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross": Text and Performance, Garland (New York City), 1996. ------, Weasels and Wisemen: Education, Ethics, and Ethnicity in David Mamet, St. Martin's Press, 1999. King, Kimball, Ten Modern American Playwrights, Garland, 1982.America, May 15, 1993, p. 16. Interview, April 1998, p. 66; December, 2000, p. 58.Modern Drama, Fall, 1999, p. 326; Spring, 2000, p. 13.Time, July 12, 1976, April 9, 1984, p. 105; March 1, 1999, p. 81; May 17, 1999, p. 90; December 25, 2000, p. 164; January 15, 2001, p. 138; January 29, 2001, p. 60.
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