Editing David Mamet (section)

=== Gender issues ===
Mamet's plays have frequently sparked debate and controversy.<ref name="TG">{{cite news|url=http://bway.ly/e1kah#https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jul/08/david-mamet-warns-theatres-25000-fine-if-you-discuss-my-work-glengarry-glen-ross-oleanna|title=David Mamet's $25,000 threat to theatres over post-show talks|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|first=Dalya|last=Alberge|date=July 8, 2017|access-date=July 12, 2017}}</ref> Following a 1992 staging of ''[[Oleanna (play)|Oleanna]]'', a play in which a college student  accuses her professor of trying to rape her,<ref name="Chiaramonte">{{cite journal |last1=Chiaramonte |first1=Peter |title=Power play: The dynamics of power and interpersonal communication in higher education as reflected in David Mamet's Oleanna |journal=Canadian Journal of Higher Education |date=2014 |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=38–51 |doi=10.47678/cjhe.v44i1.182431 |url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1028749.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409163153/http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1028749.pdf |archive-date=2015-04-09 |url-status=live|doi-access=free }}</ref> a critic reported that the play divided the audience by gender and recounted that "couples emerged screaming at each other".<ref name="TG" />

In his 2014 book ''David Mamet and Male Friendship'', Arthur Holmberg examined Mamet's portrayal of male friendships, especially focusing on the contradictions and ambiguities of [[male bonding]] as dramatized in Mamet's plays and films.<ref>Holmberg, Arthur (2014). ''David Mamet and Male Friendship'', 276 pages, Palgrave Macmillan, {{ISBN|978-1137305183}}.</ref>