The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard

by Edited by Matthew Roudané

• ISBN13: 9780521771580
• ISBN10: 0521771587
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed "on" and "off" Broadway as well as in all the major regional American theaters. 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 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 work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Chronology	xv
Introduction	1	(6)
Matthew Roudane
Born injured: the theatre of Sam Shepard	7	(27)
Christopher Bigsby
Shepard and Off-Off-Broadway: the unseen hand of Theatre Genesis	34	(30)
Stephen J. Bottoms
Shepard on Shepard: an interview	64	(17)
Matthew Roudane
A note on Sam Shepard	81	(2)
Joseph Chaikin
Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard in collaboration	83	(28)
Marc Robinson
Repetition and regression in Curse of the Starving Class and Buried Child	111	(12)
Thomas P. Adler
Shepard writes about writing	123	(16)
Brenda Murphy
Reflections of the past in True West and A Lie of the Mind	139	(15)
Leslie Kane
Patriarchal pathology from The Holy Ghostly to Silent Tongue	154	(17)
Carla J. McDonough
The classic Western and Sam Shepard's family sagas	171	(18)
John M. Clum
European textures: adapting Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus	189	(21)
Johan Callens
Sam Shepard and the cinema	210	(17)
Kimball King
Sam Shepard as musical experimenter	227	(20)
David J. DeRose
Sam Shepard's nondramatic works	247	(10)
Ann C. Hall
States of Shock, Simpatico, and Eyes for Consuela: Sam Shepard's plays of the 1990s	257	(22)
Leslie A. Wade
Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss	279	(13)
Matthew Roudane
Sam Shepard: a bibliographic essay and production overview	292	(19)
Susan C. W. Abbotson
Select bibliography	311	(9)
Index	320