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The Cambridge companion to Sam Shepard, edited by Matthew Roudané

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-319) and index

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contains biographical information

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Cambridge companion to Sam Shepard

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dictionariesbibliographyhandbooks

Oclc number

57146429

Responsibility statement

edited by Matthew Roudané

Series statement

Cambridge companions to literature

Summary

Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in all the major regional American theatres. They are also widely performed and studied in Europe, particularly in Britain, Germany and France, finding both a popular and a scholarly audience. This Companion containing specially-commissioned essays explores the various aspects of Shepard's career, providing fascinating first-hand accounts and substantial critical chapters on the plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film workFew American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. Specially-commissioned essays in this Companion explore Shepard's career: his life, plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film work

Table Of Contents

Born injured / Christopher Bigsby -- Shepard and off-off-broadway: the unseen hand of theatre genesis / Stephen J. Bottoms -- Shepard on Shepard: an interview -- A note on Sam Shepard / Joseph Chaikin -- Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard in collaboration / Marc Robinson -- Repetition and regression in Curse of the Starving Class and Buried Child / Thomas P. Adler -- Shepard writes about writing / Brenda Murphy -- Reflections of the past in True West and A Lie of the Mind / Leslie Kane -- Patriarchal pathology from The Holy Ghostly to Silent Tongue Carla J. McDonough -- The classic western and Sam Shepard's family sagas / John M. Clum -- European textures: adapting Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus / Johan Callens -- Sam Shepard and the cinema / Kimball King -- Sam Shepard as musical experimenter / David J. DeRose -- Sam Shepard's nondramatic works / Ann C. Hall -- State of shock, Simpatico, and Eyes for Consuela: Sam Shepard's plays of the 1990s / Leslie A. Wade -- Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss / Matthew Roudane -- Sam Shepard: a bibliographic essay and production overview / Susan C.W. Abbotson

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Companion to Sam Shepard

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