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American dreams : the imagination of Sam Shepard / edited by Bonnie Marranca.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shepard, Sam.
- Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PAJ Publications, a Division of Performing Arts Journal, Inc., [1981]
- Summary:
- The standard critical work on the author features two dozen essays and miscellaneous pieces by leading theatre critics, directors, and actors on the plays and productions of Shepard, from the beginning of his career. A special section by the author on his own work is also included.
- Contents:
- Alphabetical Shepard: the play of words / Bonnie Marranca
- The transformations of Sam Shepard / Gerald Weales
- The playwright as Shaman / Jack Gelber
- Spectacle of disintegration: Operation Sidewinder / John Lahr
- Image shots are blown: the rock plays / Robert Coe
- An introduction: La turista / Elizabeth Hardwick
- Visions of the end: the early plays / Michael Bloom
- A trip through popular culture: Mad Dog Blues / George Stambolian
- Men without women: the Shepard landscape / Florence Falk
- What price freedom? / Stanley Kauffmann
- Paired existence meets the monster Ren Frutkin
- Worse than being homeless: True West and The divided self / William Kleb
- Of life immense in passion, pulse, and power: Sam Shepard and the American literary tradition / Michael Earley
- Looking a gift horse dreamer in the mouth / Ross Wetzsteon
- Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin: speaking in tongues / Eileen Blumenthal
- Interview with Robert Woodruff / Robert Coe
- Notes: Icarus's mother / Michael Smith
- The writer and the performance group: rehearsing The tooth of crime / Richard Schechner
- Clues in a memory / Joyce Aaron
- Interview with Spalding Gray / Gautam Dasgupta
- Metaphors, mad dogs and old time cowboys: interview with Sam Shepard / Kenneth Chubb and the editors of Theatre quarterly
- Time ; American experimental theatre: then and now ; Language, visualization, and the inner library / Sam Shepard.
- ISBN:
- 0933826133 :
- OCLC:
- 7491866
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