Plays: "The Unseen Hand", "Chicago", "Icarus's Mother", "Red Cross", "Cowboys", "Operation Sidewinder", "Killer's Head" Vol 1 (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists)

by Sam Shephard (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $25.74

  Volume one of Shepard's collected plays brings into print 14 of his legendary short and full-length plays from the 60s, including The Unseen Hand , Chicago , Icarus's Mother , Red Cross , Cowboys , Operation Sidewinder and Killer's Head .

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.28

  Sam Shepard has been described by the New Yorker as 'one of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today'. Here are seven of his finest plays, including True West and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. Also included are Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues and Savage/Love. The volume is introduced by Richard Gilman, who provides a fascinating profile of the author and places the plays in the context of contemporary American drama.

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $25.76

  Sam Shepard is 'the greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft...the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society' (New York magazine) A poet of the theatre, shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of human life (The Times)