The art of crime : the plays and films of Harold Pinter and David Mamet / edited by Leslie Kane.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A poetics for thugs / Varun Begley -- "You'll never be without a police siren" : Pinter and the subject of law / Marc Silverstein -- Harold Pinter's "Before the law" / Steven Price -- Harold Pinter's Ashes to ashes : the criminality of indifference and the failure of empathy / Charles V. Grimes -- Comedy and crime : Pinter's primal power / Penelope Prentice -- Lost in the funhouse : crime and spectacle in Pinter's screenplay of Kafka's The trial / Ann C. Hall -- Lie detectors : Pinter/Mamet and the Victorian concept of crime / Ira B. Nadel -- Gradations of criminality in the plays of David Mamet / Kimball King -- Melville's The confidence man and his descendants in David Mamet's work / Barry Goldensohn -- Fantasy crimes/fictional lives : Lakeboat / Anne M. Dean -- David Mamet's House of games and the allegory of performance / Elizabeth Klaver -- More uses of the knife as signifier in The cryptogram, The old religion, and The edge / Thomas P. Adler -- A theater of the self : Mamet's The edge as a figura of otherness / Claire Magaha -- Suckered again : the perfect patsy and The Spanish prisoner / Leslie Kane.

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