Understanding Contemporary American Literature investigates the notoriously complex and confusing dramatic world of Sam Shepard, one of Americaââ¬â¢s most prolific, thoughtful, and challenging contemporary playwrights. Augmented with an extensive bibliography, Understanding Sam Shepard is an ideal point of entrance into complex and compelling dramas of this acclaimed playwright.
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\u003cP\u003e\u003cB\u003eAn ideal introduction into the complex and compelling dramas of the acclaimed playwright \u003c/B\u003e\u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003e\u003cI\u003eUnderstanding Sam Shepard\u003c/I\u003e investigates the notoriously complex and confusing 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 has consistently focused his work on the ever-changing American cultural landscape. James A. Crank's comprehensive study of Shepard offers scholars and students of the dramatist a means of understanding Shephard's frequent experimentation with language, setting, characters, and theme. \u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003eBeginning with a brief biography of Shepard, Crank shows how experiences in Shepard's life eventually resonate in his work by exploring the major themes, unique style, and history of Shepard's productions. Focusing first on Shepard's early plays, which showcase highly experimental, frenetic explorations of fractured worlds, Crank discusses how the techniques from these works evolve and translate into the major works in his \"family trilogy\": \u003cI\u003eCurse of the Starving Class,\u003c/I\u003e the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cI\u003eBuried Child,\u003c/I\u003e and \u003cI\u003eTrue West.\u003c/I\u003e Shepard often uses elements from his past?his relationship with his father, his struggle for control within the family, and the breakdown of the suburban American dream?as major starting points in his plays. \u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003eShepard is a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, eleven Obie Awards, and a \u003cI\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c/I\u003e Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Augmented with an extensive bibliography, \u003cI\u003eUnderstanding Sam Shepard\u003c/I\u003e is an ideal point of entrance into complex and compelling dramas of this acclaimed playwright.\u003c/P\u003e
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