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Shepard, Sam - 1943–, American playwright and actor, b. Fort Sheridan, Ill., as Samuel Shepard Rogers 7th. A product of the 1960s counterculture, Shepard combines wild humor, grotesque satire, myth, and a sparse, haunting language evocative of Western movies to create a subversive pop art vision of America. His settings are often a kind of nowhere land on the American Plains, his

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Buried Child, in American Theatre » Read Now
by Sam Shepard. 20 pgs.

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...Buried Child by Sam Shepard The Characters Dodge, in his seventies Halie, Dodges wife. Mid-sixties Tilden, their oldest son Bradley, their next oldest...
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The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature ("True West" by Sam Shepard begins on p. 248) » Read Now
by Thomas J. Lyon. 450 pgs.

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...Chapter 5, from Recapitulation 234 Sam Shepard True West 248 Rudolfo...1979 Wallace Stegner, Recapitulation . 1980 Sam Shepard, True West . Census Bureau reports that 27%...
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Playwrights and Acting: Acting Methodologies for Brecht, Ionesco, Pinter, and Shepard » Read Now
by James H. McTeague. 180 pgs.

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This book analyzes the acting aesthetic of Brecht, Ionesco, Pinter, and Shepard and presents a detailed methodological approach to the performance of their plays. The originality of the book lies in the systematic and critical analysis of both the process of preparing a role and the shifting...
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This book analyzes the acting aesthetic of Brecht, Ionesco, Pinter, and Shepard and presents a detailed methodological approach to the performance of their plays. The originality of the book lies in the systematic and critical analysis of both the process of preparing a role and the shifting assumptions on matters essential for a coherent acting methodology for each playwright. The book is distinctive in that it focuses almost exclusively on the playwrights' published remarks concerning the theatre and acting, supplemented with observations by actors and directors who were close collaborators with the playwrights on productions.
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A Kind of Alaska: Women in the Plays of O'Neill, Pinter, and Shepard » Read Now
by Ann C. Hall. 150 pgs.

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...1930- --Characters -- Women 5. Shepard, Sam, 1943- --Characters -- Women...Eugene ONeill, Harold Pinter, and Sam Shepard. In it, I argue that the female...Eugene ONeill...
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The Absent Father in Modern Drama (Discussion of Sam Shepard begins on p. 51) » Read Now
by Paul Rosefeldt. 176 pgs.

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Beyond Naturalism: A New Realism in American Theatre (Chap. Four "Sam Shepard's Realistic Drama") » Read Now
by William W. Demastes. 182 pgs.

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"Demastes, in his interesting study of the work of David Rabe, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Charles Fuller, Beth Henley, and Marsha Norman, examines how these playwrights utilize the realist format to redirect perception of human life, how they cope with the consciously taken 'task of challenging old...
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"Demastes, in his interesting study of the work of David Rabe, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Charles Fuller, Beth Henley, and Marsha Norman, examines how these playwrights utilize the realist format to redirect perception of human life, how they cope with the consciously taken 'task of challenging old systems of thought from a base of new perspective.' The analyses of individual plays are preceded by a brief review of some earlier dramatic theories of realism revealing the roots and antecedents of the new forms. . . . Beyond Naturalism is a very useful and valuable contribution to drama and theatre studies." American Literature
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Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition (Chap. Sixteen "The Hurlyburly Lies of the Causalist Mind: Chaos and the Realism of Rabe and Shepard") » Read Now
by William W. Demastes. 292 pgs.

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...is from Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, world premiere production 1983...Theatre, San Francisco, directed by Sam Shepard. Pictured are Kathy Baker as May...playwrights as...
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Critical Angles: European Views of Contemporary American Literature ("Sam Shepard: Word and Image" begins on p. 208) » Read Now
by Marc Cheenetier. 251 pgs.

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...piles up the most "representative" names of the time and not only , together with names from the collective imagination Uncle Sam is one of them himself . A double...
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Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama ("Sam Shepard's Inter/National Stage" begins on p. 157) » Read Now
by Marc Maufort. 398 pgs.

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...a Hot Tin Roof 141 Johan Callens Sam Shepards Inter/National Stage 157 Alain Piette...contemporary mainstream/canonical playwrights, like Mamet or Shepard, voice similar...
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Sam Shepard's Identity Dance, in American Theatre » Read Now
by Don Shewey. 7 pgs.

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...Sam Shepards identity dance by Don Shewey...year Signature turned its attention to Sam Shepard, and the results have been erratic, unpredictable...most to say about the...
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Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre (Discussion of Sam Shepard begins on p. 172) » Read Now
by Robert J. Andreach. 244 pgs.

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Combining his skills as both a professional reviewer of theatre and a literary critic, Robert J. Andreach finds himself in a unique position to provide coherence to what most observers perceive as an unrelated welter of contemporary theatrical experiences. Exploring the theatre from the 1960s to the...
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Combining his skills as both a professional reviewer of theatre and a literary critic, Robert J. Andreach finds himself in a unique position to provide coherence to what most observers perceive as an unrelated welter of contemporary theatrical experiences. Exploring the theatre from the 1960s to the present, he shows the various ways in which the contemporary American theatre creates a personal, theatrical, and national self.
Andreach argues that the contemporary American theatre creates multiple selves that reflect and give voice to the many communities within our multicultural society. These selves are fragmented and enclaved, however, which makes necessary a counter movement that seeks, through interaction among the various parts, to heal the divisions within, between, and among them.
In his examination of the contemporary theatre, Andreach demonstrates that the plays and the performance art of the feminist, African-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American, and Native American theatres are equal to the works created within the dominant Eurocentric culture.
He then turns to comparable works created within the culture of what performance artist Karen Finley calls the "one male god", works that reflect the breakup of an old order. He discusses the experimental theatre, which turns to the imagination to reveal the nature of the self, and concludes with an examination of recent American works, pointing out in each either the presence or absence of resolution within the divisions of self.
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Staging the Impossible: The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama (Discussion of Sam Shepard begins on p. 190) » Read Now
by Patrick D. Murphy. 260 pgs.

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This book explores the most recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary genre of drama with respect to modern theatre. Wide-ranging in time and space, the 14 essays assess 20th century dramatic works from the United States, Ireland...
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This book explores the most recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary genre of drama with respect to modern theatre. Wide-ranging in time and space, the 14 essays assess 20th century dramatic works from the United States, Ireland, England, Western Europe, and the Caribbean. Canonical figures, such as Strindberg, Yeats, Beckett, Ionesco, Cocteau, and Stoppard are studied, along with neglected figures and innovative new performance troupes and individual artists. Concluding essays are devoted to contemporary experimental theatre and postmodern drama, and a study of science fiction on stage includes an annotated listing of forty English-language plays.
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The Dramaturgy of Style: Voice in Short Fiction (Discussion of Sam Shepard begins on p. 241) » Read Now
by Michael Stephens. 308 pgs.

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...the magic of dramas beginnings. Sam Shepard in Buried Child has a character...with a chapter on playwrights, Sam Shepard and David Mamet, and their debt to Harold Pinter...
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One Bad Movie Too Many: Sam Shepard's Visions of Excess, in Velvet Light Trap » Read Now
by Forest Pyle. 10 pgs.

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...One Bad Movie Too Many: Sam Shepards Visions of Excess FOREST PYLE...Spectacle Near the beginning of Sam Shepard Angel City ( 1976 ), Rabbit...Spectacle of the Simulacrum...
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Rock-and-Roll Jesus with a Cowboymouth (Revisited): Sam Shepard Gets Personal with American Theatre Once Again - 20 Years Later, in American Theatre » Read Now
by Don Shewey. 9 pgs.

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...with a Cowboymouth (Revisited); Sam Shepard Gets Personal with American Theatre...HERE?" It doesnt take long for Sam Shepard to get to the heart of the matter...Almereyda...