Matthew Roudané, Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, specializes in American Drama. He has published widely on recent American theater, including Understanding Edward Albee (1987), Conversations with Arthur Miller (1987), Contemporary American Dramatists (1989), Who''s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Necessary Fictions, Terrifying Realities (1990), Public Issues, Private Tensions: Contemporary American Drama (1993), Approaches to Teaching Miller''s Death of a Salesman (1995), American Drama since 1960: A Critical History (1996), and The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams (1997). He also is a contributor to Christopher Bigsby''s The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller and to Don Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby''s The Cambridge History of American Drama, Vol. 3 (2000). Roudané is the editor of the South Atlantic Review.
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Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction Matthew Roudané
1. Born injured: the theatre of Sam Shepard Christopher Bigsby
2. Shepard and Off-Off Broadway: the unseen hand of Theatre Genesis Stephen J. Bottoms
3. Shepard on Shepard: an interview Matthew Roudané
4. On Sam Shepard Joseph Chaikin
5. Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard in Collaboration Marc Robinson
6. Repetition and regression in Curse of the Starving Class and Buried Child Thomas P. Adler
7. Shepard writes about writing Brenda Murphy
8. Reflections of the past in True West and A Lie of the Mind Leslie Kane
9. Patriarchal pathology from The Holy Ghostly to Silent Tongue Carla J. McDonough
10. The classic Western and Sam Shepard's family sagas John Clum
11. European textures: adapting Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus Johan Callens
12. Sam Shepard and the cinema Kimball King
13. Sam Shepard as musical experimenter David DeRose
14. Sam Shepard's non-dramatic writings Ann C. Hall
15. States of Shock, Simpatico, and Eyes for Consuela: Sam Shepard's plays of the 1990s Leslie Wade
16. Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss Matthew Roudané
17. Sam Shepard: a bibliographic essay and production overview Susan Abbotson
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