27 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present
Nightingale’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” (pp. 89–102) is a useful discussion of the play
and its critical reception.
The David Mamet Society http://mamet.eserver.org/ [accessed 16 November
2009].
Website featuring the society’s newsletter, which publishes performance and
publication reviews and updates related to Mamet studies. Also included are
links to other sites related to David Mamet including the blog he posted for the
Huff ington Post.
Anne Dean, David Mamet: Language as Dramatic Action (Rutherford, N.J.: Fair-
leigh Dickinson University Press, 1990).
An analysis of Mamet’s use of dialogue in his now classic plays Sexual Perversity
in Chicago, American Buffalo, A Life in the Theatre, Edmond, and Glengarry Glen
Ross.
Katharine Hibbert, “Unreal Estate,” Times Literary Supplement, 2 November
2007, p. 18.
Review of the 2007 revival of Glengarry Glen Ross that provides a glimpse of a
stage production.
Christopher Hudgins and Leslie Kane, eds., Gender and Genre: Essays on David
Mamet (New York: Palgrave, 2001).
Collection of essays that do not feature Glengarry Glen Ross but offer various
approaches to and critical positions on the topic of gender in Mamet’s plays.
Kane, ed., David Mamet: A Casebook (New York: Garland, 1992).
A collection of important essays treating major themes and questions raised by
Mamet’s plays. The book includes interviews with critic Gregory Mosher (pp.
231–247) and actor Joe Mantegna (pp. 249–269).
Kane, ed., David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross: Text and Performance (New York:
Garland, 1996).
Offers critical studies, bibliographies, and interviews from a wide variety of per-
spectives. Particularly useful is Janice A. Sauer, “Bibliography of Glengarry Glen
Ross (1983–1995),” pp. 263–273.
Robert Lublin, “Differing Dramatic Dynamics in the Stage and Screen Versions
of Glengarry Glen Ross,” American Drama, 10 (Winter 2001): 38–55.
An analysis of the differences between the stage and film versions of Glengarry
Glen Ross, arguing that they are separate works with related but different thematic
concerns.
David K. Sauer and Janice A. Sauer, eds., David Mamet: A Research and Production
Sourcebook (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003).
Comprehensive work that includes production history, overview of all reviews
(including excerpts from them), and criticism of each of Mamet’s plays. Glengarry
Glen Ross is discussed primarily on pp. 143–180.
Hersh Zeifman, “Phallus in Wonderland: Machismo and Business in David
Mamet’s American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross,” in Modern Dramatists: A