Further Reading
- Additional coverage of Rabe's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale and the Gale Group: Contemporary American Dramatists; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 85-88; Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series, Vol. 3; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 59, 129; Contemporary Dramatists; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 4, 8, 33; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 7, 228; DISCovering Authors Modules: Dramatists; Drama Criticism, Vol. 16; Drama for Students, Vols. 3, 8, 13; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; and Literature Resource Center.
- Barbera, Jack, "The Emotion of Multitude and David Rabe's Streamers," American Drama 1, no. 2 (fall 1997): 50–66. (Explores Rabe's use of dramatic techniques that stimulate imagination and give Streamers wider significance.)
- Demastes, William W. and Michael Vanden Heuvel, "The Hurlyburly Lies of the Causalist Mind: Chaos and the Realism of Rabe and Shepard," in Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition, pp. 255–76. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1996. (Discusses the realistic use of chaos by Rabe and Sam Shepard in their plays.)
- Holland, Megan, "Streamers: Millikin Theatre Uses the Vietnam War to Explore the Conflict Within," Decaturian (26 October 1999). (Offers a positive assessment of Pipe Dreams Theater’s production of Streamers.)
- Houswitschka, Christoph, "The Christian Perspective: War and Ritual Sacrifices in David Rabe's Sticks and Bones," in Modern War on Stage and Screen, edited by Wolfgang Görtschacher and Holger Klein, pp. 117–34. Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. (Identifies the ritual significance of the violence in Sticks and Bones.)
- Levett, Karl, "Jungles and Buried Treasure," Drama 154, no. 4 (1984): 46. (Gives a mixed assessment of the New York City production of Hurlyburly directed by Mike Nichols.)
- Mohr, Hans-Ulrich, "David Rabe: Streamers—Vietnam Drama and Postmodernism," in Modern War on Stage and Screen, edited by Wolfgang Görtschacher and Holger Klein, pp. 135–47. Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. (Examines the theatrical presentation of the war off-stage as exemplified by Streamers.)
- Scheck, Frank, "Off-Broadway Opts Not to Keep Those the River Keeps," Christian Science Monitor 86, no. 52 (8 February 1994): 12. (Elucidates the major weaknesses of Rabe's 1994 stage production of Those the River Keeps.)
- Zinman, Toby Silverman, ed., David Rabe: A Casebook. New York: Garland Publishing, 1991, 238 p. (Includes collected critical essays from a range of writers and includes interviews and commentary from Rabe.)
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