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Romance : a play / David Mamet.
- Title
- Romance : a play / David Mamet.
- Author
- Mamet, David
- Publication
- New York : Vintage Books, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3563.A4345 R66 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 118 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Pulitzer Prize--winning playwright David Mamet's Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors. It's hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who's a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney. The prosecutor, a homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in court in a leopard-print thong. And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place. Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices, and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity."--Publisher's website.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Farces
- Legal drama.
- Note
- "A Vintage original"--T.p. verso.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0307275183 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2005048460
- 9780307275189
- OCLC
- 60419557
- SCSB-10853876
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library