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Boston Marriage

By David Mamet

By David Mamet

By David Mamet

By David Mamet

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Oct 08, 2002 | ISBN 9780375706653

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Feb 17, 2010 | ISBN 9780307482419

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    About Boston Marriage

    One of America’s most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room.

    Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who live together on the fringes of society.  Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald.  Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a young girl and wants to enlist the jealous Anna’s help for an assignation.  As the two women exchange barbs and taunt their hapless maid, Claire’s inamorata arrives and sets off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the women’s future at risk.  Mamet brings his trademark tart dialogue and impeccable plotting, spiced with Wildean wit, to this wickedly funny comedy.

    About Boston Marriage

    One of America’s most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room.

    Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who live together on the fringes of society.  Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald.  Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a young girl and wants to enlist the jealous Anna’s help for an assignation.  As the two women exchange barbs and taunt their hapless maid, Claire’s inamorata arrives and sets off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the women’s future at risk.  Mamet brings his trademark tart dialogue and impeccable plotting, spiced with Wildean wit, to this wickedly funny comedy.

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    About David Mamet

    DAVID MAMET is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including Heist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow… More about David Mamet

    About David Mamet

    DAVID MAMET is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including Heist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow… More about David Mamet

    Product Details

    Category: 20th Century U.S. History

    Paperback | $13.95
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 08, 2002 | 144 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375706653

    Category: 20th Century U.S. History

    Ebook | $10.99
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    Feb 17, 2010 | 128 Pages | ISBN 9780307482419

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    Praise

    "One of Mamet’s most satisfying and accomplished plays, and one of the funniest American comedies in years."  -New York Post

    "[Mamet’s characters] are at each other’s throats with a wit akin to characters out of Wilde and a vengence not unlike those from Pinter, Edward Albee, or Mamet himself."  -The Boston Globe

    "Devastatingly funny…exceptionally clever."  -The New York Times

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