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`Glengarry Glen Ross ' by David Mamet

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David Mamet is one of the most prominent of the American playwrights . In most of his plays , he uses forceful , realistic dialogue to create a situation he sees as corrupt and morally decayed drastically needing a radical change . Mamet often focuses on how adopting an immoral business

ethic reduces people to purely worldly beings as merchandise and creates an emotionally spiritual wasteland . Mamet first gained attention for two short plays , Duck Variations (1972 ) and Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974 . His first major full-length drama was American Buffalo (1977 , a naturalistic study of three petty criminals . Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 is an expose of greed and cynicism among real estate salesmen . The play won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for drama . Speed-the-Plow (1988 ) is a satiric portrait of the movie industry in Hollywood . Oleanna (1992 examines charges of sexual harassment between a college professor and a graduate student . The Cryptogram (1995 ) deals with the psychological abuse of a child by the adults closest to him . Boston Marriage (1999 deals with a lesbian couple in Boston during the 1800 's . Dr . Faustus (2004 ) is a modern adaptation of a medieval legend about a man who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power . Romance (2005 ) is a comedy that satirizes Middle East politics and the American judicial system , among other s

Mamet has written several successful screenplays , including The Verdict (1982 , The Untouchables (1987 , and Things Change (1988 . He wrote and directed Homicide (1991 , State and Main (2000 , Heist (2001 , and Spartan (2004 . His nonfiction pieces were collected in Writing in Restaurants (1986 ) and Some Freaks (1990 . He also evaluated the modern motion-picture industry in Bambi vs . Godzilla : On the Nature , Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business (2007 . In addition , Mamet wrote a study of anti-Semitism called The Wicked Son (2006 . He also wrote a novel , The Village (1994 . Mamet was born in Chicago , Illinois on Nov 30 , 1947

From among the various achievements of David Mamet some notable ones include

1 . Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his play Glengarry Glen Ross

2 . Two Obie Awards (1976 ,1983 , and

3 . Two New York Drama Critics Circle Awards (1977 ,1986

Besides , Mamet is regarded as a major voice in American drama and cinema . He animates his stage through language , a poetic idiolect that explores the relationship between public issue and private desires - and the effects of this relationship on the individual 's spirit . Mamet is also very well known for his wit and comedy . Mamet imitate human commitments and desires in non-mythical forms : commodity obsession sexual negotiations and exploitations , bungled crimes , physical assaults , fraudulent business transactions enacted by petty thieves camouflaged as business associates , and human relationships whose only shared features are the presence of...