The Unseen Hand and Other Plays

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, MAY 1996

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, in 1972, and in somewhat different form by Urizen, in 1981, and by Bantam Books, New York, in 1986.

Copyright Notices
The Unseen Hand copyright © 1972, 1981, 1986 by Sam Shepard
The Rock Garden copyright © 1968, 1986 by Sam Shepard
Chicago copyright © 1967, 1981, 1986 by Sam Shepard
Icarus’s Mother copyright © 1967, 1981, 1986 by Sam Shepard
4-H Club copyright © 1972, 1981, 1986 by Sam Shepard
Fourteen Hundred Thousand copyright © 1967, 1981, 1986 by Sam Shepard
Red Cross copyright © 1967, 1981, 1986 by Sam Shepard
Cowboys #2 copyright © 1968, 1986 by Sam Shepard
Forensic & the Navigators copyright © 1972, 1981, 1986 by Sam Shepard
The Holy Ghostly copyright © 1972, 1981, 1986 by Sam Shepard
Operation Sidewinder copyright © 1970, 1986 by Sam Shepard
The Mad Dog Blues copyright © 1972, 1986 by Sam Shepard
Back Bog Beast Bait copyright © 1972, 1981, 1986 by Sam Shepard
Killer’s Head copyright © 1972, 1986 by Sam Shepard

CAUTION: These plays are fully protected, in whole, in part, or in any form under the copyright laws of the United States of America, the British Empire including the Dominion of Canada, and all other countries of the copyright union, and are subject to royalty. All rights, including professional, amateur, motion picture, radio, television, recitation, and public reading, are strictly reserved. All inquiries for performance rights should be addressed to the author’s agent, Berman, Boals and Flynn, 225 Lafayette Street, Suite 1207, New York, NY 10012.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shepard, Sam, 1943–
The unseen hand and other plays / by Sam Shepard.
p.  cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-56091-9
I. Title.
PS3569.H394U5     1996
812′.54–dc20     95-47723

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