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Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr. Faustus.Mamet’s Faustus—like Marlowe’s and Goethe’s before him—is a philosopher whose life’s work has been the pursuit of “the secret engine of the world.” He is also the distracted father of a small, adoring son. Out of the clash between love and intellect and the fatal operation of Faustus’ pride, Mamet fashions a work that is at once caustic and heart-wrenching and whose resplendent language marries metaphysics to conman’s patter. A meditation on reason and folly, fathers and sons, and a breathtaking display of magic both literal and theatrical, Faustus is a triumph.From the Trade Paperback edition.Review“No modern playwright has been bolder or more brilliant.” —*The New Yorker“Pinter, Albee, Miller. They’re all looking over Mamet’s shoulder.” —New York*From the Trade Paperback edition.About the AuthorDavid Mamet was born in Chicago in 1947. He studied at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New Yo

Who reads Faustus : a Play?

Author

David Mamet

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307484710

Category

reference

Subjects

Fiction, Drama

Rating

3.9 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14