Fifteen One-Act Plays
An expanded edition of the collection The Unseen Hand and Other Plays
$51.62
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2012
Summary
A masterly collection of fifteen one-act plays—including two new works, a previously unpublished short play/dialogue between Sam Shepard and Bob Dylan, and twelve beloved classics—by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author named “the great playwright of his generation” by The New York Times.
Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780345802767 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0345802764 |
| Author: | Sam Shepard |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 335g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Vintage Contemporaries |
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Critics Review
“The greatest American playwright of his generation…the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft…the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society.” —New York Magazine
“Stunning in their originality, defiant and inscrutable.” —Esquire
“With the exception of David Mamet, no American playwright of his generation matches Mr. Shepard in the creation of characters that are immediately so accessible and so mysterious.” —The New York Times
“One of our best and most challenging playwrights… . His plays are a form of exorcism: magical, sometimes surreal rituals that grapple with the demonic forces in the American landscape.” —Newsweek
“One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today.” —The New Yorker
“Sam Shepard fulfills the role of professional playwright as a good ballet dancer or acrobat fulfills his role in performance… . He always delivers, he executes feats of dexterity and technical difficulty that an untrained person could not, and makes them seem easy.” —The Village Voice
“The major talent of his generation… . An original, a major force… . [Shepard] is a poet of the theater, shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of human life.” —The Times (London)
About The Author
Sam Shepard
SAM SHEPARD was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than fifty-five plays, three story collections, and two works of prose fiction. As an actor, he appeared in more than sixty films, and received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for The Right Stuff. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection Great Dream of Heaven. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy, and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. He died in 2017.
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