The Art of Crime

The Plays and Film of Harold Pinter and David Mamet

Leslie Kane

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Routledge
28 April 2004

Dance & Performing arts

Series: Studies in Modern Drama

This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists. The contributors generally focus on one or more works by a single writer, while a few take a comparative approach. Often the works studied are lesser-known or infrequently discussed works, thereby making this volume a particularly valuable addition to current scholarship.

Edited by: Leslie Kane
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 21
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9780415968300
ISBN 10: 0415968305
Series: Studies in Modern Drama
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 28 April 2004
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Poetics for Thugs Varun Begley 2. You'll Never Be Without a Police Siren: Pinter and the Subject of Law Marc Silverstein 3. Harold Pinter Before the Law Steven Price 4. Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes: Violation, Empathy, and Historical Remembrance Charles Grimes 5. Comedy and Crime: Pinter's Primal Power and Celebration Penelope Prentice 6. Lost in the Funhouse: Pinter's Screenplay of Kafka's The Trial Ann C. Hall 7. Lie Detectors: Pinter/Mamet and the Victorian Concept of Crime Ira Nadel 8. Gradations of Criminality in the Plays of David Mamet Kimball King 9. Melville's The Confidence Man and his Descendants in David Mamet's Work Barry Goldensohn 10. Fantasy Crimes/Fictional Lives: Lakeboat Anne M. Dean 11. David Mamet's House of Games: Performance and the Already Played Elizabeth Klaver 12. More Uses of the Knife as Signifier in The Cryptogram, The Old Religion, and The Edge Thomas P. Adler 13. Mamet's The Edge as a Figura of Otherness Claire Magaha 14. Suckered Again: The Perfect Patsy and The Spanish Prisoner Leslie Kane

Leslie Kane