True West: Selected Works


 

Anonymous. Corrections. New York Times. ; 1996 Apr 28: 1 (3).
Billington, Michael. Brothers and twisters. Guardian. 1994 Nov 12: 2, 30:5.
Boyd, Blanche McCrary. The Natural; to Theatergoers, he's America's Best
Playwright. To Movie Fans, he's the New Gary Cooper. But Sam Shepard
Says None of This Really Matters. American Film. 1984 Oct; (1): 22-26, 91-92.
Bradley, Jeff. Tension Superb in 'West'. Denver Post; 1992 May 20: 3 (1).
Coe, Robert. Saga of Sam Shepard. New York Times Magazine. 1980 Nov 23;
56-61, 118-124.
Collins, Robert Hammond. American Realism and the Plays of Sam
Shepard: A Study of Theme and Form. PH.D: University of Minnesota; 1984
Dissertation Abstracts International (46/08) 2526.
Czerepinski, Jackie Norby. Under the Influence: Alcoholic Families in the
Plays of Sam Shepard, 1977-1985 (Shepard Sam, Family Plays). PH.D:
University of Colorado at Boulder; 1991 Dissertation Abstracts
International (52/09) 3128.
Dark, John. The 'True West' Interviews. West Coast Plays. 1981 Jun; :
[51]-73.
Dikhit, Ranjana. Opening Closure: The Plays of Sam Shepard. PH.D: New York
University; 1990 Dissertation Abstracts International (51/12) 4120.
Grant, Gary Michael. A Theatre of Action Images: Sam Shepard and the
American Avant-Garde Theatre. Dissertation Abstracts International.
PH.D: University of Pittsburgh. 1984 May; (11): 3208A.
Gussow, Mel. Shepard's "West" Revised and Restored. New York Times. ;
1982 Oct 18: 17, C18 (1).
Hart, Lynda Lee. The Frontiers of American Drama: The Plays of Sam
Shepard (Contemporary Theater). PH.D: Tulane University; 1984
Dissertation Abstracts International (45/06) 1747.
Hart, Lynda Lee. Sam Shepard's Metaphorical Stages. NY: Greenwood Press;
1987; c1987: Single Author.
Hoeper, Jeffrey D. "Cain, Canaanites, and Philistines in Sam Shepard's
True West". Modern Drama. 1993 Mar; (1): 76-82.
Holstein, Suzy Clarkson. "All Growed Up" in the True West, or Huck and
Tom Meet Sam Shepard. Western American Literature. 1994 Mar(n1): p.41.
Kerr, Walter. True West. New York Times. ; 1981 Jan 11: D3 (1).
Khoury, Cynthia Ann. A production and production book of Sam Shepard's
True West. M.A Thesis: Baylor University; 1986.
Kleb, W. Sam Shepard's True West. Theater. 1980 Sep; (1): 65-71.
Kleb, William. Sam Shepard's True West. Marranca, Bonnie. American
Dreams. New York: Performing Arts Journal, 1981.
Kleb, William. Worse Than Being Homeless: True West and the Divided
Self. Marranca, Bonnie. American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam
Shepard. NY: Performing Arts Journal; 1981: 117-125.
Krekel, Michael. From 'Cowboys' to 'True West'. Sam Shepard's Drama.
Documents of an American Imagination. West Germany: Univ. of Giessen;
1985; dissertation; English and American Studies in German, 1985.
Lamont, Rosette C. When the Political Message is Submerged. New York
Times. ; 1985 Mar 24: H3 (1).
Ligon, James Carlton. Process and product: creating the role of Lee in
True West. M.F.A. Thesis: University of Virginia; 1987.
Morley, Sheridan. Cowardly swansong. Spectator. 1994 Nov 19(n8680): p.66-67.
Nelson, Don. Shepard pursues his theme. New York Daily News. ; 1982 Oct 26.
Orbison, Tucker. Mythic Levels in Shepard's True West. Modern Drama.
1984 Dec; (4): 506-19.
Orbison, Tucker. "Mythic Levels in Shepard's True West". Parker, Dorothy.
Essays on Modern American Drama. Toronto: University of Toronto Press;
1987.
Peterson, Jane Temple. Sam Shepard's Family Trilogy: Analysis and
Assessment. Dissertation Abstracts International (50/11) 3417:
University of Missouri - Columbia; 1990.
Peterson, Jane Temple. Sam Shepard's family trilogy: analysis and
assessment. Vita, thesis Ph.D.: University of Missouri-Columbia;
University Microfilms International;1992.
Podol, Peter L. Dimensions of Violence in the Theater of Sam Shepard:
True West and Fool for Love. Essays in Theatre. 1989 May; (2): 149-158.
Rabillard, Sheila. "Shepard's Challenge to the Modernist Myths of Origin
and Originality: Angel City and True West". Wilcox, Leonard. Rereading
Shepard: Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard. NY:
St. Martin's Press; 1993: 77-96.
Rich, Frank. True West. New York Times. ; 1980 Dec 24: 16, C9 (1).
Riemer, James D. Integrating the Psyche of the American Male:
Conflicting Ideals of Manhood in Sam Shepard's True West. University of
Dayton Review. 1986; Mar (2); 41-46.
Schlueter, June. The Private and Public Lives of a Dramatic Text: Reading
within the Dialogic Mode. Roudane, Matthew Charles. Public Issues,
Private Tensions: Contemporary American Drama. New York: AMS Press;
1993: pp. 281-293.
Smith, Molly. Beckettian Symbolic Structure in Sam Shepard's True West:
A Jungian Reading. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (JEP), Pittsburgh,
PA. 1989 Aug; (no. 3-4): pp. 328-334.
Smith, Susan Harris. Trying to Like Sam Shepard:or the Emperor's New
Dungarees. Between the Margins and the Centre:An International Shepard
Symposium. Unpublished manuscript; University of Pittsburgh; May 1993.
Stucky, Nathan Paul. Conversation Analysis and Performance: An
Examination of Selected Plays by Sam Shepard. Dissertation Abstracts
International (49/06) 1313: The University of Texas at Austin; 1988.
Tager, Michael. Sam Shepard's Pastoral Dilemmas. Studies in the
Humanities. 1987 Dec; (2): 116-126.
Tommasini, Anthony. 'True West': Breaking Down Racial Barriers. Boston
Globe. ; 1991 Nov 25: 39 (1).
Von Buchau, Stephanie. True West. San Francisco. 1980 Oct; : 34.
Wattenberg, R. The Frontier Myth on Stage - From the 19th-Century to Sam
Shepard's 'True West'. Western American Literature. 1989; (3): 225-241.
Weales, Gerald. True West. Commonwealth. 1983 Jan 28; : 49.
Wetzsteon, Ross. New York. ; 1980 Nov 24: 20 (1).
Yim, Harksoon. Entrapped Man In Selected Plays of Sam Shepard
(Entrapment, Escape, Sam Shepard). : University of Southwestern
Louisiana; 1996.
Young, Nathan. The mythical realist. Vita, thesis M.A.: University of Texas
at El Paso; 1990.
Young, Sally Burton. Sam Shepard's Use of Irony in Selected Plays
(Shepard Sam). Dissertation Abstracts International (53/07) 2376:
The University of Tennessee; 1992.


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