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The Late Work of Sam Shepard (Paperback)
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Hailed by critics during the 1980s as the decade's 'Great American
Playwright', Sam Shepard continued to produce work in a wide array
of media including short prose, films, plays, performances and
screenplays until his death in 2017. Like Samuel Beckett and
Tennessee Williams in their autumnal years, Shepard relentlessly
pressed the potentialities and possibilities of theatre. This is
the first volume to consider Shepard's later work and career in
detail and ranges across his work produced since the late 1980s.
Shepard's motion picture directorial debut Far North (1988) served
as the beginning of a new cycle of work. He returned to the stage
with the politically engaged States of Shock (1991) which resembled
neither his earlier plays nor his family cycle. With both Far North
and States of Shock, Shepard signaled a transition into a phase in
which he would experiment in form, subject and media for the next
two decades. Skelton's comprehensive study includes consideration
of his work in films such as Hamlet (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001),
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
and Brothers (2009); issues of authenticity in the film and
screenplay Don't Come Knocking (2005) and the play Kicking a Dead
Horse (2007); of memory and trauma in Simpatico, The Late Henry
Moss and When the World was Green, and of masculine and
conservative narratives in States of Shock and The God of Hell.
Lauded by critics in his lifetime and since his death in July 2017
as 'one of the most important and influential writers of his
generation' (NY Times), Shepard 'excelled as an actor,
screenwriter, playwright and director' (Guardian); this is a timely
and important assessment of his work spanning the last three
decades of his life.
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