Fool for Love and Other Plays
by Sam Shepard
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Author: Sam ShepardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1984-11-01
ISBN: 0553345907
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Book Review: best of Shepard Vol. II
Summary: 5 Stars
This collection contains 8 of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's best plays. Shepard has a way of capturing our imagination with a wild collection of characters in even wilder stories. "Fool For Love", "Angel City", "Geography of a Horse Dreamer", "Action", "Cowboy Mouth", Seduced", "Suicide in B", "Melodrama Play".
Shepard is one of the great American voices in theatre. These are all classics that deserve to be remembered and studied.
Summary of Fool for Love and Other Plays
Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country"--a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciouness, our fears and fantasies.FOOL FOR LOVE * ANGEL CITY * GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER * ACTION * COWBOY MOUTH * MELODRAMA PLAY * SEDUCED * SUICIDE IN Bb
With an Introduction by Ross Wetzsteon
?Sam Shepard is phenomenal...the best practicing American playwright.? ?The New Republic
?Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage.? ?Marsha Norman
?The most ruthlessly experimental and uncompromising of today's young writers.? ?John Lahr
?Sam Shepard fills the role of professional playwright as a good ballet dancer or acrobat fulfills his role in performance. That is, he always delivers, he executes feats of dexterity and technical difficulty that an untrained person could not, and makes them seem easy.? ?Michael Feingold, The Village Voice
"One of the most original, prolific, and gifted dramatists at work today.? ?The New Yorker
?Increasingly recognized as one of the more significant dramatists in the English-speaking world.? ?Charles R. Bachman, Modern Drama
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