Mythmaking and Storytelling

Résumé du livre

Shepard's plays: his emphasis on its metatheatrical qualities in his early works, his excursions into popular culture in search of a new "storytelling language," and his creation of a "mythological" narrative that transcends the realism of the traditional family play. The fourth chapter treats David Mamet's use of the monologue; storytelling, ritualized in his early plays, becomes a metaphor for the types of "con" games enacted by his characters. Mamet unmasks the fraud involved in the monologues of his