Sam Shepard and the American Theatre

List of contents

Foreword by Josh Beer and Christopher Innes
Introduction: Sam Shepard and the Narration of Nation
Shepard and the Counterculture Challenge
Shepard and the Culture Industry
A Yankee at the Royal Court
The Return of the Native
Playwright, Patriot, and Prophet
Shepard and Reagan's America
Shepard Screened
The End of the Trail?
Chronology of Shepard's Life and Times
For Further Reading
Index

About the author

LESLIE A. WADE is Associate Professor of Theatre at Louisiana State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Wade has presented his work at national and international conferences and has published essays on American theatre and popular culture. Also a playwright, Wade has had several of his plays produced and has won awards from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Los Angeles Arts Council, and the American College Theatre Festival.

Product details

• Authors: Les Wade, Les A. Wade, Leslie A. Wade
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.1997
• EAN: 9780275945848
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94584-8
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Films, cinema, Biography: arts & entertainment, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Biography: arts and entertainment, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, The Arts: Drama