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Books like David Mamet’s Oleanna

Across Drama, Performing Arts, Literary Criticism, and American — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as David Mamet’s Oleanna by David K. Sauer.

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Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of David Mamet’s Oleanna.

The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O’Neill — Michael Manheim

The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O’Neill

Michael Manheim

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

The Height of Summer: New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 Paradise Blue; Cost of Living; Actually; Where Storms Are Born; Selling Kabul; Grand Horizons — Anna Ziegler

The Height of Summer: New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 Paradise Blue; Cost of Living; Actually; Where Storms Are Born; Selling Kabul; Grand Horizons

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Judah An Original A Play In Three Acts (1894) — Henry Arthur Jones

Judah An Original A Play In Three Acts (1894)

Henry Arthur Jones

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

The Playwright’s Muse — Joan Herrington

The Playwright’s Muse

Joan Herrington

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Our Town and Other Plays — Thornton Wilder

Our Town and Other Plays

Thornton Wilder

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts — Mark Twain

Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays — Tennessee Williams

Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays

Tennessee Williams

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Imaginary Friends A Play with Music — Nora Ephron

Imaginary Friends A Play with Music

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Hamlet — William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Blanche The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Creation — Nancy Schoenberger

Blanche The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Creation

Nancy Schoenberger

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Inside the Dream Palace The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel — Sherill Tippins

Inside the Dream Palace The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel

Sherill Tippins

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

The Theatre in America During the Revolution — Jared Brown

The Theatre in America During the Revolution

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down Two Plays — John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down Two Plays

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Long Day’s Journey Into Night — Eugene O’Neill

Long Day’s Journey Into Night — Eugene O’Neill

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Asian American Playwrights A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook — Miles Liu

Asian American Playwrights A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Gentlemen Callers Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama — Michael Paller

Gentlemen Callers Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Contemporary African American Women Playwrights A Casebook — Philip C. Kolin

Contemporary African American Women Playwrights A Casebook

Philip C. Kolin

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Free & Proud — Charles Gershman

Charles Gershman

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 — C. W. E. Bigsby

Modern American Drama, 1945-2000

C. W. E. Bigsby

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Three Plays — Osonye Tess Onwueme

Osonye Tess Onwueme

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Revised by the Author — Edward Albee

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Revised by the Author

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

The Same River Twice — Alice Walker

The Same River Twice

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady — Keith Garebian

Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

African-American Performance and Theater History A Critical Reader — Harry Justin Elam

African-American Performance and Theater History A Critical Reader

Harry Justin Elam

Themes: Drama • Performing Arts • Literary Criticism

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with David Mamet’s Oleanna by David K. Sauer. Connected by Drama, Performing Arts, Literary Criticism. Authors featured include Michael Manheim, Anna Ziegler, Henry Arthur Jones, Joan Herrington, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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