Rereading Shepard : Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard (1st ed. 1993)

Rereading Shepard draws together 13 original theoretical perspectives on one of America's most important contemporary playwrights.

Representing a range of critical appraoches - including semiotics, deconstruction, and feminism - the essays address recent debates emerging in Shepard criticism.

These include the status of Shepard's texts within the modernist tradition on the one hand and a developing post-modernism on the other, and the feminist debate over Shepard's drama - does it reinforce a masculinist world or does it provide some oppositional stance toward patriarchal 'master narratives'?