Sam Shepard and the aesthetics of performance
By: by Emma Creedon
Series: What is theatre?
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137530578
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Surrealism and Sam Shepard's early plays: 1964 to 1967; title: Myth, ritual and a search for selfhood: 1969 to 1972; title: Sam Shepard's family plays and the representation of gender; title: A comparative study of Sam Shepard's Angel city (1976) and Luis Bunuel's and Salvador Dali's Un chien andalou (1929); title: Tongues (1978), Savage/love (1979) and The war in heaven: Angel's monologue (1985): Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard in collaboration; title: States of shock (1991) and Simpatico (1994): performances of waste; title: Conclusion: Through the 1990s and beyond.