Language as dramatic action : a study of five plays by David Mamet
The drama of David Mamet is one which is, above all, concerned with language. His plays are scabrous tours de force which set out to expose what he sees as the decline in moral standards in contemporary America and the subsequent debasement of oral expression. The banality and aimlessness of much mo...
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Royal Holloway, University of London
1988
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704446 |