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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Brater, Enoch. “American Clocks: Sam Shepard's Time Plays.” Modern Drama 37, no. 4 (winter 1994): 603-12.

Enoch examines issues of time in Shepard's plays, focusing on A Lie of the Mind and Fool for Love.

DeRose, David J. “A Kind of Cavorting: Superpresence and Shepard's Family Dramas.” In Rereading Shepard: Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard, edited by Leonard Wilcox, pp. 131-49. New York: St. Martin, 1993.

DeRose explores how Shepard's plays incorporate contradictory definitions of postmodernism, tracing his artistic development toward conventional dramatic forms and themes in his family dramas.

———. “Indian Country: Sam Shepard and the Cultural Other.” Contemporary Theatre Review 8, no. 4 (1998): 55-73.

DeRose utilizes Silent Tongue as a starting and ending point to look back over thirty years of...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Robert Brustein (review date 27 January 1986)
   2. Gerald Weales (review date 14 February 1986)
   3. David Wyatt (essay date spring 1992)
   4. Donald L. Carveth (essay date fall 1992)
   5. Robert B. Heilman (essay date fall 1992)
   6. Sam Shepard and Carol Rosen (interview date March 1993)
   7. Susanne Willadt (essay date March 1993)
   8. Robert Brustein (review date 2 January 1995)
   9. Robert Brustein (essay date 15-22 July 1996)
   10. Sam Shepard and Stephanie Coen (interview date September 1996)
   11. Francis King (review date 16 November 1996)
   12. Don Shewey (essay date July/August 1997)
   13. Susan Harris Smith (essay date 1998)
   14. Sam Shepard and Michael Phillips (interview date 8 November 2000)
   15. Michael Phillips (review date 17 November 2000)
   16. Katherine Duncan-Jones (review date 23 July 2001)
   17. Ann Wilson (essay date 2001)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright