Sam Shepard and the aesthetics of performance / by Emma Creedon.

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Main Author: Creedon, Emma, 1984- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Series:What is theatre?
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Table of Contents:
  • Surrealism and Sam Shepard's early plays : 1964 to 1967
  • Myth, ritual and a search for selfhood : 1969 to 1972
  • Sam Shepard's family plays and the representation of gender
  • A comparative study of Sam Shepard's Angel city (1976) and Luis Bunuel's and Salvador Dali's Un chien andalou (1929)
  • Tongues (1978), Savage/love (1979) and The war in heaven : Angel's monologue (1985): Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard in collaboration
  • States of shock (1991) and Simpatico (1994) : performances of waste
  • Conclusion: Through the 1990s and beyond.