Sam Shepard: Theme, Image, and the DirectorP. Lang, 1995 - 332 páginas One of the most exciting and produced American playwrights of the second half of this century, Sam Shepard's writing career began in 1964 and continues today. This book examines the playwright's canon first from the perspective of dramatic analysis and intertextuality in terms of theme and performance vocabulary, then from the director's perspective in interpretation for performance. The book is useful to the scholar, the theatre professional, and the theatre goer. Shepard's dramaturgy is analyzed both in terms of dramatic and cinematic influences and of its originality. The author examines how Shepard has synthesized these influences into the unique contemporary dramatic form which Graham terms «Metarealism.» |
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... symbol of the conditions of primal conflict especially given the presence of a large campfire center stage . Fire is pro- gressively developed in The Holy Ghostly as the symbol of creation through destruction . It is extremely difficult ...
... symbol of the conditions of primal conflict especially given the presence of a large campfire center stage . Fire is pro- gressively developed in The Holy Ghostly as the symbol of creation through destruction . It is extremely difficult ...
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... symbol opposed to fire ( generation , the father ) . And there is the symbol of the marsh- mallow and the action of the son toasting it - in the Zeus / Cronus myth , after castrating his father , Zeus cast the testicles into the sea ...
... symbol opposed to fire ( generation , the father ) . And there is the symbol of the marsh- mallow and the action of the son toasting it - in the Zeus / Cronus myth , after castrating his father , Zeus cast the testicles into the sea ...
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... symbol ; traditionally , a rocking chair is associated with the nurturing mother or grandmother or with aged , infirm old men passing time peacefully on the front porch . Shepard uses the image in a sexual context in The Rock Garden ...
... symbol ; traditionally , a rocking chair is associated with the nurturing mother or grandmother or with aged , infirm old men passing time peacefully on the front porch . Shepard uses the image in a sexual context in The Rock Garden ...
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