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Three Uses of the Knife Information
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 Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama is a book by David Mamet that discusses playwriting. In it, Mamet discusses the conscious and unconscious processes that go on in developing a work of...


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 The New York Observer
Mamet Plays Moses Again, Laying Down Hollywood Law
2/4/2007: 918 words, approx. 3 pages Let’s be blunt, as befits our author. David Mamet has directed more than a dozen movies, none of which suggest he has much of an affinity for the job. Things Change (1988), Homicide (1991), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), State and Main (2000) and the rest...


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Critical Review by Richard W. Mitchell
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 In the following review, Mitchell criticizes many of the views presented in Three Uses of the Knife, but allows that the book may have some validity in its advice concerning commercial playwriting.


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