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Title: Oleanna (David Mamet) Notes
Description: University level notes for 'Oleanna' by David Mamet. Notes from a second year English Literature module called Gender and Sexuality.
Description: University level notes for 'Oleanna' by David Mamet. Notes from a second year English Literature module called Gender and Sexuality.
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Gender and Sexuality week 8 – Oleanna (David Mamet
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Background
o Justice Thurgood Marshall announces his retirement from the US Supreme Court
o Bush (Snr) nominates Clarence Thomas as his replacement
o Immediately somewhat controversial, but likely to be confirmed
o Anita Hill – professor of law from Oklahoma – testifies that Thomas had sexually
harassed her during their time working at the Equal Employment Opportunities
Commission
o Interpreted by the media as a ‘he said, she said’ case
o Thomas confirmed by the Senate 52-48
o Significant increase in sexual harassment cases (6127 in 1991 – 15324 in 1996)
o 1992 declared the ‘Year of the Woman’ when record numbers of women ran for
office in the Senate (11) and won (5) along with 24 new women in the House
o “The first draft [of Oleanna], he [Mamet] said, was written some eight months
before the Thomas-Hill hearings, but it was the hearings that led him to pull it out of
a drawer and work on it again” – Bruce Weber, ‘Mamet: Hearings Prompted
“Oleanna”’, Chicago Tribune, November 12, 1992
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Initial reactions
o “The first night when David Suchet beat [Lia Williams] up, the men in the audience
really gave her a rough time, and cheered” – Harold Pinter to Mel Gussow,
Conversations with Harold Pinter, London: Nick Hern, 1994, pp
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Title: Oleanna (David Mamet) Notes
Description: University level notes for 'Oleanna' by David Mamet. Notes from a second year English Literature module called Gender and Sexuality.
Description: University level notes for 'Oleanna' by David Mamet. Notes from a second year English Literature module called Gender and Sexuality.