Related Works

Bobby Gould's story is continued in Mamet's one act play Bobby Gould In Hell.

Arthur Kopit's play Bone-the-Fish (later rewritten as Road to Nirvana) was written in response to Speed-the-Plow.

Granta 16 (1985) 167-173 includes Mamet's short story "The Bridge" which is the basis for the novel of the same name in the play.

The Secret Middle Ages (ISBN 0-7509-2685-6) by Malcolm Jones discusses the origin of the phrase "God Speed the Plow" in a celebration known as Plow Monday and a 14th century poem: "God spede the plow/And send us all corne enow/Our purpose for to mak/At crow of cok/Of the plwlete of Sygate/Be mery and glade/Wat Goodale this work mad".