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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.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...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.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...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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    A Kind of Alaska: Women in the Plays of O'Neill, Pinter, and Shepard » Read Now

    by Ann C. Hall. 150 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...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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    Beyond Naturalism: A New Realism in American Theatre (Chap. Four "Sam Shepard's Realistic Drama") » Read Now

    by William W. Demastes. 182 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    "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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    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.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...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.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...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.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...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.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...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.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    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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    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.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    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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    The Dramaturgy of Style: Voice in Short Fiction (Discussion of Sam Shepard begins on p. 241) » Read Now

    by Michael Stephens. 308 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...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.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...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.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...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...

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