Understanding Sam Shepard

With a New Preface
Investigates the notoriously complex dramatic world of Sam Shepard, one of America’s most prolific, thoughtful, and challenging contemporary playwrights. James Crank’s thorough study offers scholars and students of the dramatist a means of understanding Shephard’s frequent experimentation with language, setting, character, and theme.
An ideal introduction into the complex and compelling dramas of the acclaimed playwright

Now available in a paperback edition and featuring a new preface, Understanding Sam Shepard investigates the notoriously complex dramatic world of Sam Shepard, one of America's most prolific, thoughtful, and challenging contemporary playwrights. During his nearly fifty-year career as a writer, actor, director, and producer, Shepard (1943-2017) consistently focused his work on the ever-changing American cultural landscape. James A. Crank's thorough study offers scholars and students of the dramatist a means of understanding Shephard's frequent experimentation with language, setting, character, and theme. The new preface examines Shepard's legacy and his final work of fiction, Spy of the First Person.

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