Bibliography of published works
Plays and Screenplays
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1971.
Contains: The Unseen Hand, Forensic & the Navigators,
The Holy Ghostly, Back Bog Beast Bait, Shaved
Splits, 4-H Club.
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1981.
- New York: Continuum, 1983.
- New York: Bantam Books, 1986.
- New York: Vintage Books, 1996.
Action and The Unseen Hand: Two Plays. London: Faber
and Faber, 1975, 87 p.
Angel City & Other Plays. New York: Urizen Books,
1976.
Contains: Gelber, "SAM SHEPARD: The Playwright as Shaman,"Angel
City, Curse of the Starving Class, Killer's Head,
Action, Mad Dog Blues, Cowboy Mouth, The
Rock Garden, Cowboys #2"Sam Shepard: 9 Random
Years [7 + 2]" by Patti Smith.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1976
- London: Faber and Faber, 1978
- New York: Urizen Books, 1978
- New York: Applause, 1981
- Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983
Fool for Love and Other Plays. Intro. Ross Wetzsteon.
Toronto and New York: Bantam,
1984. 307 p. Contains: Fool for Love; Angel City;
Melodrama Play; with Patti Smith, Cowboy Mouth;
Action; Suicide in B Flat; Seduced; Geography
of a Horse Dreamer.
Angel City & Other Plays. Intro.
Jack Gelber.New York: Urizen Books, 1976. 245 p.
Contains: Gelber, "SAM SHEPARD: The Playwright as Shaman;"
Angel City;
Curse of the Starving Class; Killer's Head;
A Monologue; Action; The Mad Dog
Blues: A Two-Act Adventure Show; with Patti Smith,
Cowboy Mouth; The Rock Garden
(7 + 2)." Gelber's introduction reprinted in Marranca,
ed., American Dreams.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1976
- London: Faber and Faber, 1978
- New York: Urizen Books, 1978
- New York: Applause, 1981
- Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983
- New York: Continuum, 1983
Fool for Love and Other Plays. Intro. Ross Wetzsteon.
Toronto and New York: Bantam,
1984. 307 p. Contains: Fool for Love; Angel City;
Melodrama Play; with Patti Smith, Cowboy Mouth;
Action; Suicide in B Flat; Seduced; Geography
of a Horse Dreamer.
Back Bog Beast Bait. Reproduced from typescript by
Studio Duplicating Service, New
York, 1969. 47 leaves.
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1971. 233 p. Contains:
The Unseen Hand; Forensic & the Navigators;
The Holy Ghostly; Back Bog Beast
Bait; Shaved Splits; 4-H Club.
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1981.
- New York: Continuum, 1983.
- Toronto and New York: Bantam, 1986.
Mad Dog Blues & Other Plays. New York: Winter House,
1972. (The Winter Repertory, v.4). Contains:
Mad Dog Blues, Cowboy Mouth, The Rock Garden,
Cowboys #2, Blue Bitch, Nightwalk.
Buried Child. New York: Urizen Books, 1978. 65 p.
- New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1979
Buried Child & Seduced & Suicide in B Flat. Intro.
Jack Richardson. New York: Urizen
Books, 1979, 155 p.
Buried Child. In Famous American Plays of the 1970's.
Intro. Ted Hoffman. New York:
Dell, 1981, pp. 387-460.
Buried Child. In Best American Plays, Eight Series,
1974-1982. Ed. Clives Barnes. New
York: Crown, 1983, pp. 277-311.
Fluch der verhungernden Klasse; Vergrabenes Kind: 2 Theaterstucke.
Deutsche Erstausg.
Frankfurt am Main. S. Fischer. 1980.
Sam Shepard: Seven Plays. Intro.
Richard Gilman. New York and Toronto: Bantam,
1981. 337 p. Contains: True West; Buried Child;
Curse of the Starving Class; The
Tooth of Crime (A Play with Music in Two Acts); La
Turista; with Joseph Chaikin,
Tongues (A Piece for Voice and Percussion)
and Savage/Love.
- Toronto and New York: Bantam Trad. Edition,
1984. 336 p.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
- New York: Bantam Books, 1986. 2nd printing.
Sam Shepard: Tekst and Context. Amsterdam: Theater Frascate, 1989.
Note: translations of seven Sam Shepard plays including Tongues and Savage/Love;
co-authored by Joseph Chaikin.
Chicago. In Eight Plays from Off-Off Broadway.
Ed. Nick Orzel and Michael Smith.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966
Chicago and Other Plays. New York: Applause Theatre
Book Publishers, 1981. 170 p.
Reprint of Five Plays (Bobbs-Merrill, 1967).
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981
- London: Faber and Faber, 1982. With director's notes by Ralph
Cook.
- New York: Continuum, 1983. With director's notes by Ralph
Cook.
Five Plays by Sam Shepard: Chicago, Icarus's Mother, Red
Cross, Fourteen Hundred
Thousand, Melodrama Play. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1967. 170 p. With
directors' and authors' notes. Michael Smith's "Notes
on Icarus's Mother"
reprinted in Marranca, ed., American Dreams.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1969
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. New York: Bantam
Books, 1986. Contains:
The Unseen Hand, Rock Garden, Chicago,
Icarus's Mothe, 4-H Club, Fourteen Hundred Thousand,
Red Cross, Cowboys No. 2, Forensic and the Navigators, The Holy
Ghostly, Operation Sidewinder, Mad Dog Blues, Back Bog Beast
Bait, Killer's Head.
Angel City & Other Plays. Intro.
Jack Gelber.New York: Urizen Books, 1976. 245 p.
Contains: Gelber, "SAM SHEPARD: The Playwright as Shaman;"
Angel City;
Curse of the Starving Class; Killer's Head;
A Monologue; Action; The Mad Dog
Blues: A Two-Act Adventure Show; with Patti Smith,
Cowboy Mouth; The Rock Garden
(7 + 2)." Gelber's introduction reprinted in Marranca,
ed., American Dreams.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1976
- London: Faber and Faber, 1978
- New York: Urizen Books, 1978
- New York: Applause, 1981
- Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983
Fool for Love and Other Plays. Intro. Ross Wetzsteon.
Toronto and New York: Bantam,
1984. 307 p. Contains: Fool for Love; Angel City;
Melodrama Play; with Patti Smith, Cowboy Mouth;
Action; Suicide in B Flat; Seduced; Geography
of a Horse Dreamer.
Mad Dog Blues & Other Plays. Intro. Michael McClure.
The Winter Repertory, 4. New
York: Winter House, 1971. 158 p.; illus. Contains: The
Mad Dog Blues; with Patti
Smith, Cowboy Mouth; The Rock Garden; Cowboys
#2; Patti Smith, "Sam
Shepard: 9 Random Years (7 + 2)."
- Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971
- New York: Winter House, 1972. The Winter Repertory 4.
Unpublished
Angel City & Other Plays. Intro.
Jack Gelber.New York: Urizen Books, 1976. 245 p.
Contains: Gelber, "SAM SHEPARD: The Playwright as Shaman;"
Angel City;
Curse of the Starving Class; Killer's Head;
A Monologue; Action; The Mad Dog
Blues: A Two-Act Adventure Show; with Patti Smith,
Cowboy Mouth; The Rock Garden
(7 + 2)." Gelber's introduction reprinted in Marranca,
ed., American Dreams.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1976
- London: Faber and Faber, 1978
- New York: Urizen Books, 1978
- New York: Applause, 1981
- Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983
- New York: Continuum, 1983
Cowboys #2. In Collision Course. Ed. Edward
Parone. New York: Random House,
1968, pp. 135-157.
Mad Dog Blues & Other Plays. Intro. Michael McClure.
The Winter Repertory, 4. New
York: Winter House, 1971. 158 p.; illus. Contains: The
Mad Dog Blues; with Patti
Smith, Cowboy Mouth; The Rock Garden; Cowboys
#2; Patti Smith, "Sam
Shepard: 9 Random Years (7 + 2)."
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. New York: Bantam
Books, 1986. Contains:
The Unseen Hand, Rock Garden, Chicago,
Icarus's Mother, 4-H Club, Fourteen Hundred
Thousand, Red Cross, Cowboys #2, Forensic
and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Operation
Sidewinder, Mad Dog Blues, Back Bog Beast Bait,
Killer's Head.
Curse of the Starving Class: A Play in Three Acts.
New York: Dramatists Play Service,
1976.
Angel City & Other Plays. Intro.
Jack Gelber.New York: Urizen Books, 1976. 245 p.
Contains: Gelber, "SAM SHEPARD: The Playwright as Shaman;"
Angel City;
Curse of the Starving Class; Killer's Head;
A Monologue; Action; The Mad Dog
Blues: A Two-Act Adventure Show; with Patti Smith,
Cowboy Mouth; The Rock Garden
(7 + 2)." Gelber's introduction reprinted in Marranca,
ed., American Dreams.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1976
- London: Faber and Faber, 1978
- New York: Applause, 1981
- Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983
- New York: Continuum, 1983
Sam Shepard: Seven Plays. Intro.
Richard Gilman. New York and Toronto: Bantam,
1981. 337 p. Contains: True West; Buried Child;
Curse of the Starving Class; The
Tooth of Crime (A Play with Music in Two Acts); La
Turista; with Joseph Chaikin,
Tongues (A Piece for Voice and Percussion)
and Savage/Love.
- Toronto and New York: Bantam Trad. Edition,
1984. 336 p.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
- New York: Bantam Books, 1986. 2nd printing.
Sam Shepard: Tekst and Context. Amsterdam: Theater Frascate, 1989.
Note: translations of seven Sam Shepard plays including Tongues and Savage/Love;
co-authored by Joseph Chaikin.
Unpublished
The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green : Three Plays. New York: Vintage, 1998.
States of Shock, Far North, Silent Tongue.New York:
Vintage Books, 1993, pp. 49-120.
London: Metheun Drama, 1993.
Fool for Love and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the
Eve of Killing His Wife. San
Francisco: City Lights Books, 1983. 112 p. Music to Sad
Lament by Sam Shepard
and Catherine Stone.
- San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1983 (Book Club ed.)
- New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1984
- London: Faber and Faber, 1984
Fool for Love (French). Trans. with an afterword by
Robert Cordier Collecion "Sixpack."
(Paris:) Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1985.
Fool for Love and Other Plays. Intro. Ross Wetzsteon.
Toronto and New York: Bantam,
1984. 307 p. Contains: Fool for Love; Angel City;
Melodrama Play; with Patti
Smith, Cowboy Mouth; Action; Suicide in
B Flat; Seduced; Geography of a Horse
Dreamer.
Fool for Love: A Full-length Play in One Act. In Best
Plays of 1983-1984. Ed. Otis L.
Guernsey, Jr. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984 , pp. 89-99 (excerpts
and synopsis).
Liebestoll (Fool for Love). Trans. Michael Schindlbeck.
Theater Heute, 26 (September
1985), pp. 42-49. In German.
Forensic and the Navigators. In The Best of Off-Off-Broadway.
Ed. Michael Smith. New
York: Dutton, 1969, pp. 21-45.
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1971.
Contains: The Unseen Hand, Forensic & the Navigators,
The Holy Ghostly, Back Bog Beast Bait, Shaved
Splits, 4-H Club.
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1981.
- New York: Continuum, 1983.
- New York: Bantam Books, 1986.
- New York: Vintage Books, 1996.
Chicago and Other Plays. New York: Applause Theatre
Book Publishers, 1981. 170 p.
Reprint of Five Plays (Bobbs-Merrill, 1967).
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981
- London: Faber and Faber, 1982. With director's notes by Sydney
Schubert Walter.
- New York: Continuum, 1983. With director's notes by Sydney
Schubert Walter.
Five Plays by Sam Shepard: Chicago, Icarus's Mother, Red
Cross, Fourteen Hundred
Thousand, Melodrama Play. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1967. 170 p. With
directors' and authors' notes. Michael Smith's "Notes
on Icarus's Mother"
reprinted in Marranca, ed., American Dreams.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1969
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. New York: Bantam
Books, 1986. Contains:
The Unseen Hand, Rock Garden, Chicago,
Icarus's Mothe, 4-H Club, Fourteen Hundred Thousand,
Red Cross, Cowboys No. 2, Forensic and the Navigators, The Holy
Ghostly, Operation Sidewinder, Mad Dog Blues, Back Bog Beast
Bait, Killer's Head.
Fool for Love and Other Plays. Intro. Ross Wetzsteon.
Toronto and New York: Bantam,
1984. 307 p. Contains: Fool for Love; Angel City; Melodrama
Play; with Patti
Smith, Cowboy Mouth; Action; Suicide in B Flat; Seduced;
Geography of a Horse
Dreamer.
Four Two Act Plays. Intro. Elizabeth Hardwick. London:
Faber and Faber, 1974. 219 p.;
music. Contains: La Turista; The Tooth of Crime: A Play
with Music in Two Acts;
Geography of a Horse Dreamer: A Mystery in Two Acts; Operation
Sidewinder: A
Play in Two Acts.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1980
- Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1980
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981
- London: Faber and Faber, 1981
- New York: Continuum Books, 1983
The Tooth of Crime and Geography of a Horse Dreamer; Two
Plays by Sam Shepard. [1st
Evergreen Edition]. New York: Grove Press, 1974.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1974.
The Holy Ghostly. In Best Short Plays of the World Theatre,
1968-1973. Ed. with an
introduction and prefaces to the plays, Standley Richards.
New York: Crown,
1973, pp. 277-288.
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1971. 233 p. Contains:
The Unseen Hand; Forensic & the Navigators; The Holy Ghostly;
Back Bog Beast
Bait; Shaved Splits; 4-H Club.
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1981.
- New York: Continuum, 1983.
- Toronto and New York: Bantam, 1986.
- New York: Vintage Books, 1996.
Chicago and Other Plays. New York: Applause Theatre Book
Publishers, 1981. 170 p.
Reprint of Five Plays (Bobbs-Merrill, 1967).
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981
- London: Faber and Faber, 1982. With director's notes by
Michael Smith.
- New York: Continuum, 1983. With director's notes by Michael
Smith.
Five Plays by Sam Shepard: Chicago, Icarus's Mother, Red
Cross, Fourteen Hundred
Thousand, Melodrama Play. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1967. 170 p. With
directors' and authors' notes. Michael Smith's "Notes
on Icarus's Mother"
reprinted in Marranca, ed., American Dreams.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1969
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. New York: Continuum,
1983. Contains:
The Unseen Hand, Rock Garden, Chicago, Icarus's Mother,
4-H Club, Fourteen Hundred Thousand, Red Cross, Cowboys #2, Forensic
and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Operation Sidewinder, Mad
Dog Blues, Back Bog Beast Bait, Killer's Head.
Unpublished
Unpublished
Angel City & Other Plays. Intro.
Jack Gelber.New York: Urizen Books, 1976. 245 p.
Contains: Gelber, "SAM SHEPARD: The Playwright as Shaman;"
Angel City;
Curse of the Starving Class; Killer's Head;
A Monologue; Action; The Mad Dog
Blues: A Two-Act Adventure Show; with Patti Smith,
Cowboy Mouth; The Rock Garden
(7 + 2)." Gelber's introduction reprinted in Marranca,
ed., American Dreams.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1976
- London: Faber and Faber, 1978
- New York: Urizen Books, 1978
- New York: Applause, 1981
- Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983
- New York: Continuum, 1983.
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. New York: Continuum,
1983. Contains:
The Unseen Hand, Rock Garden, Chicago,
Icarus's Mother, 4-H Club, Fourteen Hundred
Thousand, Red Cross, Cowboys #2, Forensic
and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Operation
Sidewinder, Mad Dog Blues, Back Bog Beast Bait,
Killer's Head.
La turista: A Play in Two Acts. Intro. Elizabeth Hardwick.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1968. 72 p.; illus. Hardwick's introduction reprinted in
Marranca, ed., American
Dreams.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1969, 62 p.
"La Turista," Trans. by Elena Reina. (Milan:) Siparo,
Feb 25, 1970, pp. 50-64.
Four Two Act Plays. Intro. Elizabeth Hardwick. London:
Faber and Faber, 1974. 219 p.;
music. Contains: La Turista; The Tooth of Crime:
A Play with Music in Two Acts;
Geography of a Horse Dreamer: A Mystery in Two Acts;
Operation Sidewinder: A
Play in Two Acts.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1980
- Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1980
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981
- London: Faber and Faber, 1981
- New York: Continuum Books, 1983
Sam Shepard: Seven Plays. Intro.
Richard Gilman. New York and Toronto: Bantam,
1981. 337 p. Contains: True West; Buried Child;
Curse of the Starving Class; The
Tooth of Crime (A Play with Music in Two Acts); La
Turista; with Joseph Chaikin,
Tongues (A Piece for Voice and Percussion)
and Savage/Love.
- Toronto and New York: Bantam Trad. Edition,
1984. 336 p.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
- New York: Bantam Books, 1986. 2nd printing.
Sam Shepard: Tekst and Context. Amsterdam: Theater Frascate, 1989.
Note: translations
of seven Sam Shepard plays including Tongues and Savage/Love;
co-authored by Joseph Chaikin.
The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green : Three Plays. New York: Vintage, 1998.
A Lie of the Mind: A Play in Three
Acts. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1986.
A Lie of the Mind and The War in Heaven:
Angel's Monologue. New York: New
American Library, 1987.
Unpublished
Mad Dog Blues & Other Plays. Intro. Michael McClure.
The Winter Repertory, 4. New
York: Winter House, 1971. 158 p.; illus. Contains: The
Mad Dog Blues; with Patti
Smith, Cowboy Mouth; The Rock Garden; Cowboys
#2; Patti Smith, "Sam
Shepard: 9 Random Years (7 + 2)."
- Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971
- New York: Winter House, 1972. The Winter Repertory 4.
Angel City & Other Plays. Intro.
Jack Gelber.New York: Urizen Books, 1976. 245 p.
Contains: Gelber, "SAM SHEPARD: The Playwright as Shaman;"
Angel City;
Curse of the Starving Class; Killer's Head;
A Monologue; Action; The Mad Dog
Blues: A Two-Act Adventure Show; with Patti Smith,
Cowboy Mouth; The Rock Garden
(7 + 2)." Gelber's introduction reprinted in Marranca,
ed., American Dreams.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1976
- London: Faber and Faber, 1978
- New York: Urizen Books, 1978
- New York: Applause, 1981
- Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. New York: Continuum,
1983. Contains:
The Unseen Hand, Rock Garden, Chicago,
Icarus's Mother, 4-H Club, Fourteen Hundred
Thousand, Red Cross, Cowboys #2, Forensic
and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Operation
Sidewinder, Mad Dog Blues, Back Bog Beast Bait,
Killer's Head.
Maxagasm
Maxagasm: A Distorted Western for Soul & Psyche. 2nd
draft. Los Angeles: Creative
Management Associates, 1970.
Chicago and Other Plays. New York: Applause Theatre
Book Publishers, 1981. 170 p.
Reprint of Five Plays (Bobbs-Merrill, 1967).
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981
- London: Faber and Faber, 1982. With director's notes by Michael
Smith.
- New York: Continuum, 1983. With director's notes by Michael
Smith.
Five Plays by Sam Shepard: Chicago, Icarus's Mother, Red
Cross, Fourteen Hundred
Thousand, Melodrama Play. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1967. 170 p. With
directors' and authors' notes. Michael Smith's "Notes
on Icarus's Mother"
reprinted in Marranca, ed., American Dreams.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1969
Fool for Love and Other Plays. Intro. Ross Wetzsteon.
Toronto and New York: Bantam,
1984. 307 p. Contains: Fool for Love; Angel City;
Melodrama Play; with Patti
Smith, Cowboy Mouth; Action; Suicide in
B Flat; Seduced; Geography of a Horse
Dreamer
Nightwalk and Terminal. With Jean-Claude van
Itallie, Megan Terry and the Open Theater.
Three Works by the Open Theater. Ed. Karen Malpede.
New York: Drama Book
Specialists, 1974.
Mad Dog Blues & Other Plays. New York: Winter House,
1972 (The Winter Repertory). Contains:
The Mad Dog Blues, Cowboy Mouth, The Rock
Garden, Cowboys #2, Blue Bitch, Nightwalk.
Operation Sidewinder: A Play in Two Acts. In Esquire,
71 (May 1969), pp. 152-153,
160, 210, 212, 214, 216-218, 220, 222-228, 230-234; illus.
Operation Sidewinder: A Play in Two Acts. In The
Great American Life Show: 9 Plays
from the Avant-Garde Theater. Ed. John Lahr and Jonathan
Price. New York:
Bantam, 1974, pp. 111-182; intro. by John Lahr, pp. 107-110.
Operation Sidewinder: A Play in Two Acts. New York:
Alvin Ferleger, 1969.
- Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.
Four Two Act Plays. Intro. Elizabeth Hardwick. London:
Faber and Faber, 1974. 219 p.;
music. Contains: La Turista; The Tooth of Crime:
A Play with Music in Two Acts;
Geography of a Horse Dreamer: A Mystery in Two Acts;
Operation Sidewinder: A
Play in Two Acts.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1980
- Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1980
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981
- London: Faber and Faber, 1981
- New York: Continuum Books, 1983
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. New York: Continuum,
1983. Contains:
The Unseen Hand, Rock Garden, Chicago,
Icarus's Mother, 4-H Club, Fourteen Hundred
Thousand, Red Cross, Cowboys #2, Forensic
and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Operation
Sidewinder, Mad Dog Blues, Back Bog Beast Bait,
Killer's Head.
Paris, Texas. New York : [Los Angeles] Gray City,
Inc.; [Script Collectors Service], 1983
- Hollywood: Script City, 1983. Screenplay.
- Berlin: Road Movies, 1984.
Red Cross. in The New Underground Theater.
Ed. by Robert Schroeder. New York:
Bantam Books, 1974.
Red Cross. In Off-Broadway Plays, Vol. 2. Intro.
Charles Marowitz. Harmondsworth,
England: Penguin, 1972, pp. 13-30.
Chicago and Other Plays. New York: Applause Theatre
Book Publishers, 1981. 170 p.
Reprint of Five Plays (Bobbs-Merrill, 1967).
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981
- London: Faber and Faber, 1982. With director's notes by Michael
Smith.
- New York: Continuum, 1983. With director's notes by Michael
Smith.
Five Plays by Sam Shepard: Chicago, Icarus's Mother, Red
Cross, Fourteen Hundred
Thousand, Melodrama Play. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1967. 170 p. With
directors' and authors' notes. Michael Smith's "Notes
on Icarus's Mother"
reprinted in Marranca, ed., American Dreams.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1969
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. New York: Bantam
Books, 1986. Contains:
The Unseen Hand, Rock Garden, Chicago,
Icarus's Mother, 4-H Club, Fourteen Hundred
Thousand, Red Cross, Cowboys #2, Forensic
and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Operation
Sidewinder, Mad Dog Blues, Back Bog Beast Bait,
Killer's Head.
The Rock Garden (Scene 3). In Oh! Calcutta! An
Entertainment with Music. By Kenneth
Tynan. New York: Grove, 1969.
The Rock Garden. In Scripts, 1 (January 1972),
pp. 24-30. Published by the Shakespeare
Festival Public Theater, New York.
Angel City & Other Plays. Intro.
Jack Gelber.New York: Urizen Books, 1976. 245 p.
Contains: Gelber, "SAM SHEPARD: The Playwright as Shaman;"
Angel City;
Curse of the Starving Class; Killer's Head;
A Monologue; Action; The Mad Dog
Blues: A Two-Act Adventure Show; with Patti Smith,
Cowboy Mouth; The Rock Garden
(7 + 2)." Gelber's introduction reprinted in Marranca,
ed., American Dreams.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1976
- London: Faber and Faber, 1978
- New York: Urizen Books, 1978
- New York: Applause, 1981
- Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983
- New York: Continuum, 1983
Mad Dog Blues & Other Plays. New York: Winter House,
1972 (The Winter Repertory). Contains:
The Mad Dog Blues, Cowboy Mouth, The Rock
Garden, Cowboys #2, Blue Bitch, Nightwalk.
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. New York: Bantam
Books, 1986. Contains:
The Unseen Hand, Rock Garden, Chicago,
Icarus's Mother, 4-H Club, Fourteen Hundred
Thousand, Red Cross, Cowboys #2, Forensic
and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Operation
Sidewinder, Mad Dog Blues, Back Bog Beast Bait,
Killer's Head.
Unpublished
The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His
Wife. In Theatre, 12 (Summer/Fall
1981), pp. 32-38.
Sam Shepard: Tekst & Context. Amsterdam: Theater Frascati,
1989.
Sam Shepard: Seven Plays. Intro.
Richard Gilman. New York and Toronto: Bantam,
1981. 337 p. Contains: True West; Buried Child;
Curse of the Starving Class; The
Tooth of Crime (A Play with Music in Two Acts); La
Turista; with Joseph Chaikin,
Tongues (A Piece for Voice and Percussion)
and Savage/Love.
- Toronto and New York: Bantam Trad. Edition,
1984. 336 p.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
- New York: Bantam Books, 1986. 2nd printing.
Linguaggi: (per voci e purcussioni). 1980.
Note: Italian
translations of Tongues and Savage/Love; Both plays were written
in collaboration with Joseph Chaikin.
Sam Shepard: Tekst and Context. Amsterdam: Theater Frascate, 1989.
Note: translations
of seven Sam Shepard plays including Tongues and Savage/Love;
co-authored by Joseph Chaikin.
L'Avant Scene Theatre (Paris), No. 764 (February 1985). Contents: L'Ouest,
le vrai [True West], trans.
Rudi Coupez; Savage/Love, parallel English and French
texts, trans.
Seduced: A Play in Two Acts. New York: Dramatists
Play Service, 1979.
Buried Child & Seduced & Suicide in B
Flat. Intro. Jack Richardson. New
York: Urizen
Books, 1979, 155 p.
Fool for Love and Other Plays. Intro. Ross Wetzsteon. Toronto and New York: Bantam,>
1984. 307 p. Contains: Fool for Love;
Angel City; Melodrama Play; with Patti
Smith, Cowboy Mouth; Action;
Suicide in B Flat; Seduced; Geography of a Horse
Dreamer.
Shaved Splits. In Screw magazine, 21 June 1971,
pp. 3-7, 16.
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1971. 233 p. Contains:
The Unseen Hand; Forensic & the Navigators;
The Holy Ghostly; Back Bog Beast
Bait; Shaved Splits; 4-H Club.
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1981.
- New York: Continuum, 1983.
- New York: Vintage Books, 1996.
Simpatico. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1995.
Simpatico: A Play in Three Acts. New York: Vintage
Books, 1996.
London: Metheun Drama in association with the Royal Court
Theatre, 1995.
States of Shock, Far North, Silent Tongue. New York:
Vintage Books, 1993, pp.121-202.
London: Metheun Drama in association with the Royal Court
Theatre, 1995.
"Excerpts from Slave of the Camera," Antaeus,
66 (Spring 1991), pp. 421-429.
States of Shock. in Ten Screen Plays. New York:
Vintage, 1993. Includes: States of
Shock, A Vaudeville Nightmare, Far North,
and Silent Tongue.
States of Shock, Far North, Silent Tongue. New York:
Vintage Books, 1993, pp. 1-48.
London: Metheun Drama in association with the Royal Court
Theatre, 1995.
Suicide in B Flat: A Mysterious Overture. New York:
Lois Berman, 1978.
Buried Child & Seduced & Suicide in B Flat. Intro.
Jack Richardson. New York: Urizen
Books, 1979, 155 p.
Fool for Love and Other Plays. Intro. Ross Wetzsteon.
Toronto and New York: Bantam,
1984. 307 p. Contains: Fool for Love; Angel City;
Melodrama Play; with Patti
Smith, Cowboy Mouth; Action; Suicide in
B Flat; Seduced; Geography of a Horse
Dreamer.
Unpublished
Tongues. 1 sound cassette: analog. New York: Harris,
1978.
Linguaggi: (per voci e percussioni). 1980
Sam Shepard: Tekst and Context. Amsterdam: Theater
Frascate, 1989.
Note: translations of seven Sam Shepard plays including
Tongues and Savage/Love; co-authored by Joseph Chaikin.
Sam Shepard: Seven Plays. Intro.
Richard Gilman. New York and Toronto: Bantam,
1981. 337 p. Contains: True West; Buried Child;
Curse of the Starving Class; The
Tooth of Crime (A Play with Music in Two Acts); La
Turista; with Joseph Chaikin,
Tongues (A Piece for Voice and Percussion) and Savage/Love.
- Toronto and New York: Bantam Trad. Edition,
1984. 336 p.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
- New York: Bantam Books, 1986. 2nd printing.
The Tooth of Crime. in Performance, 1 (Mar-Apr
1973), pp. 66-91.
The Tooth of Crime. in The Obie Winners: The Best
of Off-Broadway. Ed. with an
introduction by Ross Wetzsteon. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday,
1980, pp. 371-
439.
The Tooth of Crime and Geography of a Horse Dreamer; Two
Plays by Sam Shepard. [1st
Evergreen Edition]. New York: Grove Press, 1974.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1974.
Four Two Act Plays. Intro. Elizabeth Hardwick. London:
Faber and Faber, 1974. 219 p.;
music. Contains: La Turista; The Tooth of Crime:
A Play with Music in Two Acts;
Geography of a Horse Dreamer: A Mystery in Two Acts;
Operation Sidewinder: A
Play in Two Acts.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1980
- Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1980
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981
- London: Faber and Faber, 1981
- New York: Continuum Books, 1983
Sam Shepard: Seven Plays. Intro.
Richard Gilman. New York and Toronto: Bantam,
1981. 337 p. Contains: True West; Buried Child;
Curse of the Starving Class; The
Tooth of Crime (A Play with Music in Two Acts); La
Turista; with Joseph Chaikin,
Tongues (A Piece for Voice and Percussion)
and Savage/Love.
- Toronto and New York: Bantam Trad. Edition,
1984. 336 p.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
- New York: Bantam Books, 1986. 2nd printing.
Sam Shepard: Tekst and Context. Amsterdam: Theater Frascate, 1989.
Note: translations
of seven Sam Shepard plays including Tongues and Savage/Love;
co-authored by Joseph Chaikin.
True West. Book Club Edition. Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson
Doubleday, 1981. 77 p.; illus.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1981, 63 p.
- New York: Samuel French, 1981.
L'Avant Scene Theatre (Paris), No. 764 (February 1985).
Contents: L'Ouest, le vrai [True
West], trans. Rudi Coupez; Savage/Love, parallel
English and French texts, trans.
Robert Cordier; translated scenes from Action, Cowboy
Mouth, Tooth of Crime,
Red Cross. Press reviews of performances of L'Ouest,
le vrai at Le Theatre de
l'Athenee, 24 October 1984, and Savage/Love at Le
Theatre Marie Stuart, 26
September 1984, and notes on the director and cast of L'Ouest,
le vrai. Bio-
bibliographical notes on Sam Shepard. Commentary by Robert
Cordier, "Shepard-
Shaman," pp. 43-45, and Irene Sadowska-Guillon, "`Savage
Love' ou l'amour
dans tous ses etats," pp. 45-47.
Sam Shepard: Seven Plays. Intro.
Richard Gilman. New York and Toronto: Bantam,
1981. 337 p. Contains: True West; Buried Child;
Curse of the Starving Class; The
Tooth of Crime (A Play with Music in Two Acts); La
Turista; with Joseph Chaikin,
Tongues (A Piece for Voice and Percussion)
and Savage/Love.
- Toronto and New York: Bantam Trad. Edition,
1984. 336 p.
- London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
- New York: Bantam Books, 1986. 2nd printing.
Sam Shepard: Tekst and Context. Amsterdam: Theater Frascate, 1989.
Note: translations
of seven Sam Shepard plays including Tongues and Savage/Love;
co-authored by Joseph Chaikin.
ha-Maarav ha-amiti.
Mahad. 1. ed. Ramat Gan: Bet Tsevi, 1991 (Sifriyat ha-teatron).
Note: Hebrew
translation of True West.
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1971. 233 p. Contains:
The Unseen Hand; Forensic & the Navigators;
The Holy Ghostly; Back Bog Beast
Bait; Shaved Splits; 4-H Club.
- New York: Urizen Books, 1981.
- New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1981.
- New York: Continuum, 1983.
- Toronto and New York: Bantam, 1986.
- New York: Vintage Books, 1996.
The Unseen Hand: A Play in One Act. In The Off-Off-Broadway
Book: The Plays, People,
Theatre. Ed. Albert Poland and Bruce Mailman. Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill, 1972,
pp. 373-387.
The Unseen Hand. In Plays and Players (London),
20 (May 1973), pp. I-XI. Includes
"AZUSA is a real place: Sam Shepard writes a special
preface to `The Unseen
Hand'."
"Introduction," in The Unseen Hand and Other
Plays. New York: Bantam, 1986.
Action and The Unseen Hand: Two Plays. London: Faber
and Faber, 1975, 87 p.
Unpublished
The War in Heaven (Aagel's Monologue). Cowriter Joseph
Chaikin. Performing Arts
Journal '85, 9, pp. 249-62.
The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green : Three Plays. New York: Vintage, 1998.
Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.
Prose and Poetry
Cruising Paradise, Tales. New York: Vintage Books,
1997.
- New York: Knopf, 1996.
- New York: Random House Audiobooks, 1996.
- New York: Random House, Incorporated, 1997 Jul.
Hawk Moon: A Book of Short Stories, Poems, and Monologues.
- Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. 93 p.
- New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1981
Habichsmond: prosa und gedichte. (German). Frankfort
aim Main:
S. Fischer, 1987.
Luna Halcon (Spanish). Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama,
1986.
Lune Faucon (French). Trans. Pierre Joris. Collection.
- Paris: Christian Bourgeois Editeur,
1985.
Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon. London: Faber and Faber,
1985.
Motel Chronicles. With Photographs by Johnny Dark.
- San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1982. 143 p.
- Motel Chronicles (French). Trans. with a preface by Pierre Joris;
- Paris: Christian Bourgeois Editeur, 1985. 159 p.
Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon. London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
Cronicas de motel. 2nd ed. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1985.
- Rolling Thunder Logbook. New York: Viking Press, 1977. 184 p.
- New York: Penguin Books, 1978.
- New York: Limelight Editions, 1987.
- "American Experimental Theatre Then and Now," Performing Arts Journal, 2 (Fall 1977), pp. 13-24 (Shepard, pp. 13-14). Reprinted in Marranca, ed., American Dreams. Performing Arts Journal, 1981, pp. 212-213.
- "Autobiography," News of the American Place Theatre, 3 (April 1971).
- "Language, Visualization, and the Inner Library," Drama Review, 21: 4 (Dec 1977).
- "Less Than Half a Minute," Time Out, (July 12-18, 1974), pp. 16-17.
- "Metaphors, Mad Dogs and Old-Time Cowboys," Theatre Quarterly, 4 (Aug-Oct 1974), pp. 3-16.
- "News Blues," Time Out, 222 (May 31-June 6, 1974), p. 17.
- "OOB and the Playwright: Two Commentaries," Works, 1 (Winter 1968), pp. 70-73. Tom Sankly, cowriter.
- "Sam Shepard, Playwright," Performing Arts Journal, 26 (Fall 1977), pp. 13-24.
- "Symposium: Playwrighting in America," Yale/Theatre, 4 (Winter 1973), pp. 8-27.
- "Time," Theatre, 9 (Spring, 1978), p. 9. Appeared earlier in the American
- Place Theatre Newsletter, 1975. Reprinted in Marranca, ed., American Dreams.
- "True Dylan," Esquire, 108.1 (Jul 1987), pp. 59-68.
- "Visualization, Language and The Inner Library," Drama Review, 21 (December 1977), pp. 49-58. Reprinted in Marranca, ed., American Dreams.
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