SOURCE: "The Devil and David Mamet: 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago' as Homiletic Tragedy," in Modern Drama, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4, December, 1993, pp. 512-18.
In the following essay, Skeele describes David Mamet's drama Sexual Perversity in Chicago as a homiletic trag-edy—a late, darker form of the medieval morality play--with the "degrading or dehumanizing use of sex" as its subject.
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