Tag Archives: David Mamet

Terrible Beauty Born from Easter 1916?

By Robin Bates | Published: April 21, 2023

Yeats’s “Easter, 1916” is a profound meditation on activism, including on the poet’s ambivalent feelings about Dublin’s Easter Rising.

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Rethinking Oleanna

By Robin Bates | Published: December 7, 2022

I’m rethinking Mamet’s “Oleanna” after seeing a Slovenian philosophy student praise it. In the past, I have hated the play for what I see as its attack on feminism.

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Trump as Alpha Dog Wannabe

By Robin Bates | Published: August 1, 2017

A recent “National Review” article says that Donald Trump is like those young men who watch “Glengarry Glen Ross” and fantasize about being the alpha dogs portrayed there.

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Political Extremism and Literary Classics

By Robin Bates | Published: June 7, 2012

Hints of David Mamet’s and Ray Bradbury’s rightwing extremism can be found in their best known works.

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