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The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard Edited by Matthew Roudane Index More Information Cambridge University Press 0521771587 - The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard Edited by Matthew Roudane Index More information INDEX “A Kind of Alaska”: Women in the Plays of Angels in America, 1, 274 O’Neill, Pinter, and Shepard, 300 Antigone, 41 Aaron, Joyce, 81, 88, 293 Antonioni, Michelangelo, 81, 89, 124, 210, Action, 5, 93–96, 242, 270, 307 214, 228 Adams, Brooke, 212 Apollo, 124 Adolphs, Ulrich, 298 Argnot, Pierre, 220 Adult Children of Alcoholics, 145 Aristotle, 203 Advertisements for the Unexperienced Arredondo, Jeri, 165 Planters of NewEngland , 71 Ars Moriendi, 191 Aesthetic Illusion, 302 Artaud, Antonin, 4, 47, 100, Affliction, 290 275, 297 “Ain’t No Fortunate Son, I”, 66 Auerbach, Doris, 172, 198, 301 Albee, Edward, 1, 2, 8, 12, 186, 269–70, 293 Bach, J. S., 261 Aldrich, Robert, 184 Bachman, Charles, 301 Alexander the Great, 203 Back Bog Beast Bait, 58, 231–32, 271 Allen, Jennifer, 32 Backus, Margot Gayle, 111 Allen, Michael, 39, 40 Bad Day at Black Rock, 174, 176 Almereyda, Michael, 288 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 295 Altman, Robert, 135, 220, 308 Bakker, Jim, 202 American Drama Criticism, 293 Baltimore Waltz, The, 258 American Drama since 1960 300 Banks, Rosemarie, 301 American Dramatists, 294 Barish, Jonas, 201 American Dream Myth, 69–71, 198, Barnes, Clive, 306 300 Barnes, Theo, 41 American Dreams, 299 Barsha, Tony, 41, 44, 46, 48–49, 51, 57, American Literature and the Arts, 302 59, 61 American Place Theatre, 34, 36, 57, Basinger, Kim, 221 262, 308 Bataille, Georges, 260 American Playhouse, 308 Bataille, Georges, 267 American Playwrights, 304 Bates, Alan, 165, 224 Anderson, Reed, 32 Bates, Kathy, 217 Andrews, Raymond, 104 Beard, The, 58 Angel City, 19, 23, 73, 124–26, 128, 131, Beat poetry, 4 189, 199, 206, 210, 238–39, 307 Beatles, The, 2 320 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521771587 - The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard Edited by Matthew Roudane Index More information index Beckett, Samuel, 3, 14, 40, 50, 53, 56, 73, 83, Caffe Cino, 35–37, 40, 65, 305 86, 103, 139, 145, 176, 198, 222, 255, Callens, Johan, 294–96, 298–99, 302, 285, 297 304 Beckett Translating/Translating Beckett, Cambridge History of American Theatre, 301 vol. iii, The, 300 Belgian Essays on Language and Literature, Canby, Vincent, 220 302 Cannes film festival, 212 Benet, Carol, 298 Cardinal, Tantoo, 167 Beresford, Bruce, 217 Cardullo, Bert, 112, 118 Bertin, Michael, 304 Carmines, Al, 37 Bettelheim, Bruno, 89 Carpenter, Charles A., 293 Beyond Naturalism, 303 Carroll, Beeson, 36, 48 Bigsby, Christopher, 31, 142, 294, 300, Carson, Hunter, 160, 219 302–3 Cassavetes, John, 183 Birthday Party, The, 303 Catch-22, 2 Black Panthers, 9, 56, 66 Chaikin, Joseph, 4, 6, 74–75, 79, 83–110, Blessing, Lee, 269 189, 235–36, 250, 257, 293, 298, 304, Blood Wedding, 15 308–9 Blow-Up, 210 Chandler, Raymond, 129 Blue Bitch, 190 Changeling, The, 190, 195, 214 “Blue Bouquet, The”, 4, 271 Chaudhuri, Una, 141 Blumenthal, Eileen, 100, 102, 304 Chekhov, Anton, 4, 78 Bock, Hedwig, 302 Ch ´enetier, Marc, 302 Body Across the Map, A, 295 Cherry Lane Theatre, 216, 223 Bodyguard, The, 190, 195, 206, 214 Chicago, 3, 9, 35–36, 41–43, 89, 154, Bottoms, Steven J., 31, 32, 121, 143, 144, 305 199, 276, 294–95 Chocr ´on,Isaac, 299 Bowen, Elizabeth, 285 Chubb, Kenneth, 6, 32, 300 Box, The, 44 Cities of the Dead, 103 Boy Life on the Prairie, 212 Clark, William, 70 Brantley, Ben, 273 Clement, Aurore, 162 Brater, Enoch, 147 Clurman, Harold, 307 Brecht, Bertolt, 84, 85, 297, 301 Cocteau, Jean, 16 Brennan, Walter, 176 Coen, Stephanie, 33, 139 Brienza, Susan, 301–2 Cohn, Ruby, 46, 302 Brook, Peter, 18 Coleman, Ornette, 41, 237 Brooks, Peter, 101 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 123–24 Brustein, Robert, 247 Coltrane, John, 237 Buford, Kate, 185 Communists, Cowboys, and Queers, 172 Buried Child, 2, 5, 8, 14, 19, 21, 24, 27, 52, Connection, The, 8 58, 67–68, 72–73, 111–22, 140, 163, Contemporary Authors, 294 172–73, 176–77, 179–81, 187, 213, 235, Cook, Ralph, 37–41, 43, 46, 49, 56, 58–59, 261, 266, 269, 289, 293, 297, 301, 233, 305 304–5, 307 Cooper, Gary, 171, 176, 184–86, 210 Burnett, T-Bone, 67, 231, 280 Coppola, Francis Ford, 193 Burning Plane, The, 78 Corkery, Daniel, 285 Burstyn, Ellen, 198, 212 Corso, Gregory, 41 Burwick, Frederick, 302 Cott, Jonathan, 139 321 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521771587 - The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard Edited by Matthew Roudane Index More information index Cowboy Mouth, 57–58, 93, 172, 198, Dr. Strangelove, 2 228–30, 302, 306 Dramatic Dialogue, 303–4 Cowboys, 3, 34–35, 38–39, 43, 92, 163, Dugdale, John, 294 292, 297, 305 Dumb Waiter, The, 126 Cowboys #, 2 92, 305 Duran, Manual, 32 Cranham, Ken, 66 Durning, Charles, 221 Creedence Clearwater Revival, 66 Dylan, Bob, 9, 45, 87, 197, 229–30, Crimes of the Heart, 213, 217 307 Critical Angles, 302 Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century Early, Michael, 123 American Drama, A, 302 Ecrits, 155 Crucible, The, 1, 75, 189 Eddleman, Floyd E., 293–94 Cruising Paradise, 2, 14–15, 27, 29, 77–78, Edson, Margaret, 1 174, 247–48, 254–55, 257, 284 Eisenhower, Dwight, 7, 71, 202 Crumb, Jane Ann, 158–59 El Teatro de Sam Shepard, 299 Current Bibliography, 294 Eliot, T. S., 100, 119, 191, 200 “Curse of the Raven’s Black Feather, The”, Ellis-Fermor, Una, 196 250 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 123 Curse of the Starving Class, 2, 5, 8, 15–16, Endgame, 73, 176 19, 20–22, 27, 67–68, 72–73, 87, Essays on Contemporary American Drama, 111–22, 140, 146, 163, 172, 174, 302 177–79, 187, 196–97, 206, 213–14, Essays on Modern American Drama, 301 217, 219, 235, 240, 260–61, 270, 289, “Everything is Broken”, 9 293, 307 Eyes for Consuela, 2, 4, 77, 243, 257–78, Customs Collector in Baggy Pants, The, 309 41–43 Faludi, Susan, 60, 173 Daniels, Barry, 33, 89 Falwell, Jerry, 202–5 Darwin, Charles, 290 Far North, 22, 26, 215, 221–25 Day of the Locust, The, 23, 129–30 Faulkner, William, 189 “Days of Blackouts”, 254 Fay, Stephen, n., 16, 32 Days of Heaven, 212–13 Feingold, Michael, 267 de Beauvoir, Simone, 89 Feminist Rereadings of Modern American Death of a Salesman, 72, 119 Drama, 301 Deats, Sarah Munson, 192–93, 196 Ferencz, George, 241–42 Debusscher, Gilbert, 302 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 4, 41–43 Delicate Balance, A, 270 Figgis, Darrell, 285 Demastes, William, 143, 301, 303 Finnerty, Warren, 43 DeRose, David J., 114, 265, 294, 297 Finney, Albert, 218 Desire Under the Elms, 20, 301 Fluck, Winifred, 304 Devils of Loudun, The, 189, 205 Fonda, Jane, 65 Dickey, James, 89 Fool For Love, 2, 5, 8, 13, 15, 22, 24, 58, 60, Die Tyrannei der Bilder: Sam Shepard’s 67–68, 73, 111, 124, 133–35, 140, 154, Dramen, 298 163, 193, 211, 214–15, 219–21, 243, Dionysius, 13, 124, 193 279, 298, 301, 308 Doctor Faustus, 71, 189–209 Fool Moon, 67 Dostoyevsky, Fedor, 47 Foote, Horton, 269–70 Douglas, Kirk, 55, 184 Ford, John, 175, 184 322 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521771587 - The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard Edited by Matthew Roudane Index More information index Forensic and the Navigators, 35–36, 47, 55, Grant, Gary, 294 231, 233 Greenstreet, Sydney, 127 Fornes, Maria Irene, 58 Guests of the Nation, 284 Fourteen Hundred Thousand, 89 Guide to Critical Reviews, A, 293 Foutz, Anthony, 214 Gurdjieff, Georgei, 12 Fractured, 203, 214–15 Gussow, Mel, 308 Francis, 213 Frank, Robert, 81, 89, 105 Hadler, Georgia, 36 Frazier, James, 301 Hadler, Walter, 36, 46, 48–51, 53, Frescoes of the Skull, 139 55–56, 61 Freud, Sigmund, 100 Hall, Ann C., 300 Friedman, Alan, 301 Hamlet, 77, 213, 288 From Middleton and Rowley’s “Changeling” Hammill, Graham, 203–5 to Sam Shepard’s “Bodyguard”, 296 Handke, Peter, 4 Frye, Northrop, 118 Handman, Wynn, 36 Hansberry, Lorraine, 1 Gammon, James, 59, 280, 288 Harrelson, Woody, 280 Ganz, Arthur, 304 Harris, Ed, 59, 293 Garber, Marjorie, 196, 200 Harris, Richard, 165, 224 Garcia, David, 56–57 Hart, Bill, 36, 59 Gardner, Fred, 210 Hart, Lynda, 114, 157, 177, 294–95, Garland, 212 297, 301 “Gary Cooper or the Landscape”, 174 Hauser, Kaspar, 100 Geis, Deborah, 303 Hawk, The, 14, 19, 22, 44, 46–47 Gelber, Jack, 8 Hawk Moon, 18, 77, 88, 247–49, General History of Virginia, The, 70 252–53 Genet, Jean, 40 Hawke, Ethan, 293 Geography of a Horse Dreamer, 8, 17, 19, Hemingway, Ernest, 25, 189 59, 66, 124, 126, 128, 130–31, 190, Herman, William, 303 306–7 “Hero Is in His Kitchen, The”, 254 Gerard, Jeremy, 258 High Noon, 176 Gere, Richard, 212 Hoffman, Abbie, 306 Gerould, Daniel, 302 Hoffman, Philip, 69 Getting Out, 1 Hoffman, William, 49 Ghosts, 119 Holy Ghostly, The, 3, 48, 51–52, 144, 154, Ginsberg, Allen, 4, 41, 105 163–64, 232, 279–80, 306 Glaspell, Susan, 1 Holy Modal Rounders, The, 67, 228, 233, Glaudini, Robert, 57 238–39, 306 Goad, Jim, 50, 53 Homecoming, The, 20 Godfather, The, 193 Hoskins, Bob, 59, 66 Golden Bough, The, 301 Houghton, James, 269 Golden Screw, The, 44–46 HowI Learned to Drive , 258 Gordon, Stephanie, 40 Howe, Benjamin, 31 Gothic Family Romance, The, 111 Hughes, Howard, 206, 307 Goulet, Robert, 87 Huneven, Michelle, 248 Grabes, Herbert, 304 Hunter, 55 Graham, Billy, 202, 205 Huxley, Aldous, 189 Graham, Laura, 296 Hwang, David Henry, 58 323 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521771587 - The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard Edited by Matthew Roudane Index More information index “I’m So Tired of Being Alone”, 202 Kinski, 219 Ibsen, Henrik, 119, 206 Kissman, Lee, 35–36, 46 Icarus’s Mother, 88, 93, 197–98, 206, 242, Kleb, William, 294–95 305 Knowles, Christopher, 104 Inacoma, 89, 234–36, 242 Knowlson, James, 139 Informed Heart, The, 89 Kolin, Philip C., 294 Inner Landscapes: The Theatre of Sam Kopit, Arthur, 301 Shepard, 298 Koutoukas, H.
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