Rereading Shepard : Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard

Rereading Shepard draws together 13 original theoretical perspectives on one of Americas 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 Shepards texts within the modernist tradition on the one hand and a developing post-modernism on the other, and the feminist debate over Shepards drama - does it reinforce a masculinist world or does it provide some oppositional stance toward patriarchal master narratives?