Three Uses of the Knife

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Three Uses of the Knife
Author David Mamet
Country United States
Series The Columbia Lectures on American Culture
Subject(s) Drama
Publisher Columbia University Press
Publication date February 1998
Pages 96 (first edition, clothbound)
ISBN ISBN 023111088X

Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama is a book by David Mamet that discusses playwriting. In it, Mamet discusses the conscious and unconscious processes that go on in developing a work of art.