Couverture / Jaquette

This comprehensive analysis traces Sam Shepard's career from his experimental one-act plays of the 1960s through the 1994 play SIMPATICO. Concentrating on his play writing, this book charts Shepard's various developments and shifts of direction, and the changing contexts in which his work has appeared. The definitive source on the works of an innovative and original writer.

Table des matières

Preface; Introduction: states of crisis; 1. Working out: the early plays, 1964-7; 2. Kicking out: rock and ruin, 1967-72; 3. Sorting out: an English interlude, 1971-4; 4. Nightmares of the nation: improvizations and collaborations, 1976-9; 5. Strychnine in the gut: Curse of the Starving Class (1977) and Buried Child (1978); 6. The real thing: True West (1980) and Fool for Love (1983); 7. Fire in the snow: two movies and A Lie of the Mind, 1984-88; 8. Victory and loss: the nation in the '90s; Afterword; Chronology.

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