Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.