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American Dreams: the Imagination of Sam Shepard
Published in Textbook Binding by Olympic Marketing Corporation (1981)
Author: Bonnie Marranca
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Essential reading for any student of Shepard's work
This is a rather eclectic anthology that includes critical analyses of Shepard's plays (written between 1963 and 1981) as well as first-hand accounts by some of the actors and directors who collaborated with Shepard on various productions. Taken as a whole, the critical essays address most of the plays Shepard wrote during those seventeen years. They do, however, vary wildly in quality. Editor Bonnie Marranca's opening essay, while often quite perceptive, occasionally falls prey to simplistic generalization. Jack Gelber's essay, The Playwright as Shaman, is marred by interpretive inaccuracies. The best of the bunch are Robert Coe's "Image Shots are Blown" : The Rock Plays which presents an illuminating analysis of The Tooth of Crime, Florence Falk's Men without Women: The Shepard Landscape which reveals how certain male and female character-types appear and reappear (in slightly different dress) in a fair number of Shepard's plays, and William Kleb's Worse Than Homeless, a beautifully written examination of True West from a Langian perspective. Also of note, are Shepard's own critical writings which define, albeit obliquely, his aesthetic and creative methods. Finally, it need be stated that despite its uneveness (which, after all, is endemic to anthologies), this book is essential reading for anyone interested in Shepard's work. It is certainly one of the most comprehensive examinations of this playwright and his plays presently in print.


American Dreams the Imagination of Sam S
Published in Paperback by Twin Peaks Press ()
Author: Bonnie Marranca
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American Garden Writing
Published in Paperback by Taylor Pub (2003)
Author: Bonnie Marranca
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American Garden Writing: Gleanings from Garden Lives Then and Now
Published in Paperback by Penguin USA (Paper) (1989)
Author: Bonnie Marranca
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American Playwrights on Drama
Published in Paperback by Drama Publishers (1984)
Authors: Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta
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American Playwrights: A Critical Survey
Published in Hardcover by Drama Publishers (1981)
Author: Bonnie Marranca
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Conversations on Art and Performance
Published in Hardcover by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr (1999)
Authors: Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta
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Ecologies of Theater: Essays at the Century Turning (Paj Books)
Published in Paperback by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr (1996)
Author: Bonnie Marranca
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The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind
Published in Paperback by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr (1995)
Authors: Gertrude Stein, Bonnie Marranca, Gautam Dasgupta, and William H. Gass
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Hudson Valley Lives: Writings from the 17th Century to the Present
Published in Hardcover by Overlook Press (1992)
Author: Bonnie Marranca
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