The Spanish Prisoner and the Winslow Boy: Two Screenplays by Mamet, David

The Spanish Prisoner and the Winslow Boy: Two Screenplays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375706646)

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The Spanish Prisoner and the Winslow Boy: Two Screenplays by Mamet, David

The Spanish Prisoner and the Winslow Boy: Two Screenplays

$20.00
The Spanish Prisoner and the Winslow Boy: Two Screenplays by Mamet, David

The Spanish Prisoner and the Winslow Boy: Two Screenplays

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet ranks among the century's most influential writers for stage and screen. His dialogue--abrasive, rhythmic--illuminates a modern aesthetic evocative of Samuel Beckett. His plots--surprising, comic, topical--have evoked comparisons to masters from Alfred Hitchcock to Arthur Miller. Here are two screenplays demonstrating the astounding range of Mamet's talents.
The Spanish Prisoner, a neo-noir thriller about a research-and-development cog hoodwinked out of his own brilliant discovery, demonstrates Mamet's incomparable use of character in a dizzying tale of twists and mistaken identity. The Winslow Boy, Mamet's revisitation of Terence Rattigan's classic 1946 play, tells of a thirteen-year-old boy accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and the tug of war for truth that ensues between his middle-class family and the Royal Navy. Crackling with wit, intelligent and surprising, The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy celebrate Mamet's unique genius and our eternal fascination with the extraordinary predicaments of the common man.

Author: David Mamet
ISBN-10: 037570664X
ISBN-13: 9780375706646
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/07/1999
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.21w x 0.65d
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 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 he author of the acclaimed plays The Cryptogram, Oleanna, Speed-the-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He has also written screenplays for films such as Homicide, House of Games, Wag the Dog, and the Oscar-nominated The Verdict. His plays have won the Pulitzer Prize and the Obie Award.

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