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The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard

Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature

Editor: Matthew Roudané, Georgia State University

Matthew Roudané, Christopher Bigsby, Stephen J. Bottoms, Joseph Chaikin, Marc Robinson, Thomas P. Adler, Brenda Murphy, Leslie Kane, Carla J. McDonough, John Clum, Johan Callens, Kimball King, David DeRose, Ann C. Hall, Leslie Wade, Susan Abbotson

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Date Published: May 2002
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521771580

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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 scholarly audience. In this collection of seventeen original essays, American and European authors from different professional and academic backgrounds explore the various aspects of Shepard's career - his plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film work. The volume covers the major plays, including Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, and True West, as well as other lesser known but vitally important works. A thorough chronology of Shepard's life and career, together with biographical chapters, a note from the legendary Joseph Chaikin, and an interview with the playwright, give a fascinating first-hand account of an exuberant and experimental personality.
- Contains first-hand accounts, e.g. interview with Shepard and piece by Shepard's long-term collaborator, Joe Chaikin
- Contributors from England, Scotland and Belgium as well as USA
- The first scholarly essay on Shepard's most recent play, The Late Henry Moss
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'… Matthew Roudané gathers an impressive array of American drama's A-team scholars … he is a knowledgeable, sensitive, sensible, and thorough scholar … Roudané's collection is the best book-length study of Shepard [and] is the best collection of scholarly essays on [American] drama this year.' James J. Martine, Drama

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Product details
- Date Published: May 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521771580
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 158 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.668kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction Matthew Roudané
1. Born injured: the theatre of Sam Shepard Christopher Bigsby
2. Shepard and Off-Off Broadway: the unseen hand of Theatre Genesis Stephen J. Bottoms
3. Shepard on Shepard: an interview Matthew Roudané
4. On Sam Shepard Joseph Chaikin
5. Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard in Collaboration Marc Robinson
6. Repetition and regression in Curse of the Starving Class and Buried Child Thomas P. Adler
7. Shepard writes about writing Brenda Murphy
8. Reflections of the past in True West and A Lie of the Mind Leslie Kane
9. Patriarchal pathology from The Holy Ghostly to Silent Tongue Carla J. McDonough
10. The classic Western and Sam Shepard's family sagas John Clum
11. European textures: adapting Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus Johan Callens
12. Sam Shepard and the cinema Kimball King
13. Sam Shepard as musical experimenter David DeRose
14. Sam Shepard's non-dramatic writings Ann C. Hall
15. States of Shock, Simpatico, and Eyes for Consuela: Sam Shepard's plays of the 1990s Leslie Wade
16. Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss Matthew Roudané
17. Sam Shepard: a bibliographic essay and production overview Susan Abbotson
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Editor
Matthew Roudané, Georgia State University
Matthew Roudané, Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, specializes in American Drama. He has published widely on recent American theater, including Understanding Edward Albee (1987), Conversations with Arthur Miller (1987), Contemporary American Dramatists (1989), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Necessary Fictions, Terrifying Realities (1990), Public Issues, Private Tensions: Contemporary American Drama (1993), Approaches to Teaching Miller's Death of a Salesman (1995), American Drama since 1960: A Critical History (1996), and The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams (1997). He also is a contributor to Christopher Bigsby's The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller and to Don Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby's The Cambridge History of American Drama, Vol. 3 (2000). Roudané is the editor of the South Atlantic Review.
Contributors
Matthew Roudané, Christopher Bigsby, Stephen J. Bottoms, Joseph Chaikin, Marc Robinson, Thomas P. Adler, Brenda Murphy, Leslie Kane, Carla J. McDonough, John Clum, Johan Callens, Kimball King, David DeRose, Ann C. Hall, Leslie Wade, Susan Abbotson