Description
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 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.
Author: James A. Crank
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 02/02/2023
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781643363738
ISBN10: 1643363735
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Criticism | Drama
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century
About the Author
James A. Crank is associate professor of American literature at the University of Alabama, a former National Humanities Center Summer Fellow, and co-host of the podcast "The Sound and the Furious." His other books include Understanding Randall Kenan, New Approaches to Gone with the Wind, and Race and New Modernisms.