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Sam Shepard
The story of an unnamed narrator who traces … his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes medical tests and treatments for a condition that is rendering him…
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The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright-a tour de force of memory, mystery, death, and life.
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Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard’s most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed Shepard Country –a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical…
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A collection of short stories explores acts of personal revelation set against the varied locales of the American landscape.
Johan Callens
This volume, the first of two, contains the proceedings of the Shepard conference organized in Brussels, 28-30 May 1993, by the Belgian-Luxembourg American Studies Association and the Free University of…
Stephen J. Bottoms (University of Glasgow)
An analysis of Sam Shepard’s career from the 1960s to the 1990s.
4 TWO ACT PLAYS
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Originally published in the United States in the collection Buried child, seduced, & suicide in B by Urizen Books, Inc., New York, in 1979 –T.p. verso.
Laura J Graham
One of the most exciting and produced American playwrights of the second half of this century, Sam Shepard’s writing career began in 1964 and continues today. This book examines the…
Rereading Shepard draws together 13 theoretical perspectives on this contemporary American playwright. Representing a range of critical approaches - including semiotics, deconstruction, and feminism - the essays address recent debates…
These include the status of Shepard’s texts within the modernist tradition on the one hand and a developing post-modernism on the other, and the feminist debate over Shepard’s drama -…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Sam Shepard’s True West, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A. Favorini
This innovative study examines the role of memory in the history of theatre and drama. Favorini analyzes issues of memory in self-construction, collective memory, the clash of memory and history…
Robert Greenfield
An intimate portrait of the iconic playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard, whose wide-ranging and enduring body of work places him at the center of the American canon, from an…
A Study Guide for Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Carol Benet
Sam Shepard, the noted contemporary playwright and movie star, creates his own version of the American myth in a super-realistic, avant-garde world of cowboys, gangsters, artists and rock stars. Thirteen…
Ulrich Adolphs
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Freiburg (Breisgau), 1989.
Sam Shepard,Johnny Dark
A compelling portrait of a complex, decades-long friendship, these deeply honest letters and candid family photographs offer the most intimate glimpse we will ever get into the life, personal philosophy…
Mr Sam Shepard
A collection of short pieces by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright features stories, autobiographical reminiscences, and poetry, in a work that became the source of the film ‘Paris, Texas’.
Jim McGhee
This perceptive study analyzes Sam Shepard’s thirty published playscripts from Chicago and Rock Garden to A Lie of the Mind and States of Shock - not as realistic dramas, but…
Michael Taav
As an actor, screenwriter, director, short story writer, and, most significantly, a playwright, Sam Shepard has long been an important figure on the American cultural landscape. A Body Across the…
This volume, the second of two, contains the proceedings of the Shepard conference organized in Brussels, 28-30 May 1993, by the Belgian-Luxembourg American Studies Association and the Free University of…
Sam Shepard,Catherine Stone
‘Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the play has something of the timeless universality of a Greek tragedy .
Tongues and Savage/Love written in collaboration with Joseph Chaikin.
Birgit Fricke
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)– Universiteat Keoln, 2001.
Michael Krekel
Im Urteil anerkannter Literaturwissenschaftler und Theaterkritiker gilt der Kalifornier Sam Shepard als der seit Jahren einfalls- und einflussreichste zeitgenossische Dramenautor Amerikas. Dies belegt nicht nur der stattliche Gesamtumfang seines bisherigen…
Joseph Chaikin,Sam Shepard,Barry V. Daniels
A collection of letters and collaborative texts written by playwright Sam Shepard and director Joseph Chaikin, covering one of the richest periods of contemporary American playmaking.
