David Mamet (1947 - )

A selective list of online literary criticism for David Mamet, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites

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literary criticism

A brief profile of David Mamet and an interview, in Salon.com, 1997

A list of movie versions of David Mamet's plays, with links to details about the productions, from The E! Online web page

The David Mamet Society publishes many articles on Mamet online at this site

Funny Peculiar. "Have you heard the one about David Mamet? He’s tackling the Mideast peace process, penning musicals, scribbling cartoons—and joking all the way." By Logan Hill in New York Metro, 2/28/05

"The Man With Two Brains: David Mamet at his best and worst in Spartan." By David Edelstein, in Slate, March 11, 2004

David Mamet's column in the (UK) Guardian. Several articles by Mamet can be accessed at the Guardian web site, such as "A guide to gags: How a cat with a funnel on its head taught me everything I needed to know about movie tricks," 19 November 2004

An e-z read article about David Mamet by Paul Toth in Salon.com, 2001

A brief article about The Spanish Prisoner by Ray Greene in Boxoffice Online

(removed) McDonald, Paul. "The "Unmanning" Word: Language, Masculinity and Political Correctness in the Work of David Mamet and Philip Roth." Explores affinities between David Mamet's and Philip Roth's language, contends it reveals them as males who can not sustain mature relationships with women. Journal of American Studies of Turkey 7 (1998)

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