Faustus: A Play by Mamet, David

Faustus: A Play (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400076482)

Vendor: David Mamet
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Format: Paperback
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Faustus: A Play by Mamet, David

Faustus: A Play

$21.00
Faustus: A Play by Mamet, David

Faustus: A Play

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr. Faustus.

Mamet's Faustus--like Marlowe's and Goethe's before him--is a philosopher whose life's work has been the pursuit of "the secret engine of the world." He is also the distracted father of a small, adoring son. Out of the clash between love and intellect and the fatal operation of Faustus' pride, Mamet fashions a work that is at once caustic and heart-wrenching and whose resplendent language marries metaphysics to conman's patter. A meditation on reason and folly, fathers and sons, and a breathtaking display of magic both literal and theatrical, Faustus is a triumph.

Author: David Mamet
ISBN-10: 140007648X
ISBN-13: 9781400076482
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2004
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.22w x 0.30d
By David Mamet
By David Mamet
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David Mamet was born in Chicago in 1947. He studied at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York. He has taught at Goddard College, the Yale Drama School, and New York University, and lectures at the Atlantic Theater Company, of which he is a founding member. He is the author of the plays The Cryptogram, Oleanna, Speed-the-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He has also written screenplays for such films as House of Games and the Oscar-nominated The Verdict, as well as The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, and Wag the Dog. His plays have won the Pulitzer Prize and the Obie Award.

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