Rereading Shepard: Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Artifacts: The Early Plays Reconsidered....Pages 8-21
Potential Performance Texts for The Rock Garden and 4-H Club....Pages 22-41
The Desert and the City: Operation Sidewinder and Shepard’s Postmodern Allegory....Pages 42-57
Memory and Mind: Sam Shepard’s Geography of a Horse Dreamer....Pages 58-76
Shepard’s Challenge to the Modernist Myths of Origin and Originality: Angel City and True West....Pages 77-96
True Stories: Reading the Autobiographic in Cowboy Mouth, ‘True Dylan’ and Buried Child....Pages 97-114
Shepard’s Family Trilogy and the Conventions of Modern Realism....Pages 115-130
A Kind of Cavorting: Superpresence and Shepard’s Family Dramas....Pages 131-149
Speaking Without Words: the Myth of Masculine Autonomy in Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love....Pages 150-167
When a Woman Looks: The ‘Other’ Audience of Shepard’s Plays....Pages 168-179
Lighting Out for the Territory Within: Field Notes on Shepard’s Expressionist Vision....Pages 180-195
‘I Smash the Tools of my Captivity’: The Feminine in Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind....Pages 196-214
A Motel of the Mind: Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind....Pages 215-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-229