Dec 24, 2009

Curse of the Starving Class | What Do I Read Next?

• Buried Child (1978) is the second of Shepard’s ‘‘family trilogy.’’ It examines many of the same themes as does Curse of the Starving Class. In 1978, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for the best American play of the year. The trilogy ends with True West, the story of two brothers.

• Many of the plays of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht use techniques of pastiche and the undermining of naturalism to achieve an effect on the viewer. Brecht’s theories about drama and how drama can have a social impact were very influential among American...