David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross
Subtitle: Text and Performance (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780815335900
Subjects: Biography: general; Film theory & criticism; Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; Plays / Drama; Mamet, David - Plays & Criticism; Literary Criticism; American English; Literature: Classics; USA; American; Drama; Performing Arts / Theater / General; American - General
First sentence: The detective story in Glengarry Glen Ross is literally marginalized: the office break-in occurs in the interval between the play's two acts, and the investigation in act 2 is conducted in a room off-stage by a detective who barely appears.