One of the most exciting and produced American playwrights of the second half of the century, Sam Shepard began his writing career in 1964 and continues today. This book examines the playwright's canon first from the perspective of dramatic analysis and intertextuality in terms of theme and per...

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1. Verfasser:	Graham, Laura J. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York [u.a.] Lang 1995
Schriftenreihe:	[American university studies / 26] 19
Schlagworte:	Shepard, Sam <1943-> - Critique et interprétation Shepard, Sam <1943-> > Criticism and interpretation Shepard, Sam > 1943-2017 Engels Regie Toneelstukken Drama Englisch Intertextualität
Zusammenfassung:	One of the most exciting and produced American playwrights of the second half of the century, Sam Shepard began his writing career in 1964 and continues today. This book examines the playwright's canon first from the perspective of dramatic analysis and intertextuality in terms of theme and performance vocabulary, then from the director's perspective in interpretation for performance. The book is useful to the scholar, the theatre professional, and the theatre goer. Shepard's dramaturgy is analyzed both in terms of dramatic and cinematic influences and of its originality. The author examines how Shepard has synthesized these influences into the unique contemporary dramatic form which Graham terms "Metarealism."
Beschreibung:	Sam Shepard: the traditional and the avant-garde -- Theme and style: intertextuality in Shepard's canon -- The holy ghostly: past and present in father and son: the irreconcilable conflict -- Babes of the vegetation: Extension of the Conflict -- Pgibeasts of the lowlands: Shepard's vision of the mythic -- The unfinished text: applying the performance Factor -- "Image shots are blown": Shepard's visual and verbal library -- Acting Shepard's text: going beyond "The Method" -- "The movement of stopping": Shepard on stage -- Shepard's perception of the female: the search for the integrated me -- Chronological and alphabetical listenings of works by Sam Shepard cited
Beschreibung:	VIII, 332 S.
ISBN:	0820421219