Bibliography of published works
Plays and Screenplays
4-H Club
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Blue Bitch
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Cowboy Mouth
- 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.
Cowboys
- Unpublished
Cowboys #2
- 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
- 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.
Dog
- Unpublished
Eyes for Consuela
- The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green : Three Plays. New York: Vintage, 1998.
-
Far North
- States of Shock, Far North, Silent Tongue.New York:
Vintage Books, 1993, pp. 49-120.
- London: Metheun Drama, 1993.
Fool for Love
- 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
- 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.
Fourteen Hundred Thousand
- 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.
Geography
of a Horse Dreamer
- 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
- 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.
Icarus's
Mother
- 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.
Inacoma
- Unpublished
Jacaranda
- Unpublished
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
- 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
- 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
- The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green : Three Plays. New York: Vintage, 1998.
A Lie of the Mind
- A Lie of the Mind: A Play in Three
Acts. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1986.
- London: Methuen, 1987.
- A Lie of the Mind and The War in Heaven:
Angel's Monologue. New York: New
- American Library, 1987.
Little Ocean
- Unpublished
Mad Dog Blues
- 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.
Melodrama Play
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Paris, Texas. New York : [Los Angeles] Gray City,
Inc.; [Script Collectors Service], 1983
- Hollywood: Script City, 1983. Screenplay.
- Berlin: Road Movies, 1984.
Red Cross
- 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
- 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.
Rocking Chair
- Unpublished
The Sad Lament
of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife
- 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.
Savage/Love
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Silent Tongue
- 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.
Slave of the Camera
- "Excerpts from Slave of the Camera," Antaeus,
66 (Spring 1991), pp. 421-429.
States of Shock
- 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
- 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.
Superstitions
- Unpublished
Tongues
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Up to Thursday
- Unpublished
The War in Heaven
- The War in Heaven (Aagel's Monologue). Cowriter Joseph
Chaikin. Performing Arts
- Journal '85, 9, pp. 249-62.
When the World was Green
- 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
- Rolling Thunder Logbook. New York: Viking Press, 1977. 184 p.
- New York: Penguin Books, 1978.
- New York: Limelight Editions, 1987.
-
Newspapers and Magazines
- "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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