Reunion (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Bryer, Jackson R., ed., The Playwright’s Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Dramatists, Rutgers University Press, 1995.

  Bryer provides a selection of interviews with major contemporary American playwrights.

• Jones, Nesta, and Steven Dykes, eds., File on Mamet, Metheun, 1991.

  Nesta and Dykes provide a general overview of Mamet’s career, including a brief chronology, general synopsis of his major works, and quotes from reviews by a variety of critics on each major work.

• Kane, Leslie, ed., David Mamet: A Casebook, Garland Publishing, 1992.

  Kane offers a selection of articles by a variety of writers on Mamet’s major works. Kane includes a brief chronology of Mamet’s life and career, and interviews with actors and others who have worked with Mamet.

• McDonough, Carla J., Staging Masculinity: Male Identity in Contemporary American Drama, McFarland & Co., 1997.

  McDonough gives a critical analysis of the representations of masculinity in four major American playwrights: Sam Shepard, David Mamet, David Rabe, and August Wilson.