SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Primary works

[In chronological order]

Books
Five Plays. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967; London: Faber and Faber, 1969. Reprinted as Chicago and Other Plays. New York: Urizen Books, 1981; London: Faber and Faber, 1982. Contains Chicago, Icarus’s Mother, Red Cross, Fourteen Hundred Thousand, Melodrama Play.
La Turista: A Play in Two Acts. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968; London: Faber and Faber, 1969.
Cowboys #2. In Collision Course. Edward Parone (ed.). New York: Vintage Books, 1969.
Operation Sidewinder: A Play in Two Acts. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.
Maxagasm: A Distorted Western for Soul and Psyche. 2nd draft. Los Angeles: Creative Managment Associates, 1970.
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. Reprinted New York: Urizen Books, 1981. Contains The Unseen Hand, Forensic and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Back Bog Beast Bait, Shaved Splits, 4-H Club.
Zabriskie Point. With Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Tonino Guerra, and Clare Peploe. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.
Mad Dog Blues and Other Plays. New York: Winter House, 1972. Contains The Mad Dog Blues, Cowboy Mouth with Patti Smith, The Rock Garden, Cowboys #2.
Hawk Moon: A Book of Short Stories, Poems and Monologues. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973. Reprinted New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1981.
The Tooth of Crime and Geography of a Horse Dreamer. New York: Grove Press, 1974; London: Faber and Faber, 1974.
Action and The Unseen Hand: Two Plays. London: Faber and Faber, 1975. Variant text of Action.
Curse of the Starving Class: A Play in Three Acts. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1976.
Angel City, Curse of the Starving Class, and Other Plays. New York: Urizen Books, 1976. Reprinted as Angel City and Other Plays. London: Faber and Faber, 1978. Contains Angel City, Curse of the Starving Class, Killer’s Head, Action, Mad Dog Blues, Cowboy Mouth with Patti Smith, The Rock Garden, Cowboys #2.
Rolling Thunder Logbook. New York: Viking Press, 1977; New York: Penguin, 1978. Reprinted New York: Limelight, 1987.
Suicide in B-Flat: A Mysterious Overture. New York: Berman, 1978.
Buried Child and Seduced and Suicide in B-Flat. New York: Urizen Books, 1979; Vancouver: Talon Books, 1979; London: Faber and Faber, 1980.
Four Two-Act Plays. New York: Urizen Books, 1980; London: Faber and Faber, 1981. Contains La Turista, The Tooth of Crime, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Operation Sidewinder.
Sam Shepard: Seven Plays. New York and Toronto: Bantam Books, 1981; London: Faber and Faber, 1985. Contains True West, Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues with Joseph Chaikin, Savage/Love with Joseph Chaikin.
True West. New York: French, 1981.
Motel Chronicles. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1982; London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
Fool for Love and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1983; London: Faber and Faber, 1984.
Fool for Love. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1984.
Fool for Love and Other Plays. New York and Toronto: Bantam Books, 1984. Contains Fool For Love, Angel City, Melodrama Play, Cowboy Mouth with Patti Smith, Action, Suicide in B-Flat, Seduced, Geography of a Horse Dreamer.
Paris, Texas. Berlin: Road Movies, 1984; Nordlingen (Bavaria): Greno, 1984. Adaptation L. M. Kit Carson.
Paris, Texas. New York: Ecco Press, 1984.
A Lie of the Mind: A Play in Three Acts. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1986; London: Methuen, 1987.
A Lie of the Mind. New York: Plume, 1987.
A Lie of the Mind: A Play in Three Acts and The War in Heaven: Angel’s Monologue with Joseph Chaikin. New York: New American Library, 1987.
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. New York and Toronto: Bantam Books, 1986. Reprinted New York: Vintage Books, 1996. Contains The 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.
Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard: Letters and Texts 1972–1984. Barry Daniels (ed.). New York: New American Library, 1989. Reprinted New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1994.
States of Shock. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1992.
States of Shock; Far North; Silent Tongue: A Play and Two Screenplays. New York: Vintage Books, 1993; London: Methuen, 1995.
A Lie of the Mind: Play in Three Acts. San Francisco: Arion, 1993.
Simpatico. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1995.
Simpatico: A Play in Three Acts. London: Methuen, 1995; New York: Vintage Books, 1996.
Cruising Paradise: Tales. New York: Knopf, 1996; New York: Vintage Books, 1997.
Buried Child. Revised version. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1997.
Eyes for Consuela. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1998.

Shepard’s personal archives are housed in the Mugar Library, Boston University. Theyinclude numerous unpublished and unproduced plays, monologues, screenplays, andfragments; variant scripts of published plays; poetry, short prose, journals and notebooks.

Other library collections which house Shepard material are the Magic Theatrearchives in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; the Toby Colecollection in the Shields Library, University of California, Davis; and the Yale Repertory Theatre archives in the Yale School of Drama Library.

Essays

[This section does not include pieces which appear in books listed elsewhere in this bibliography.]

“Sam Shepard.” In The New Underground Theatre. Robert J. Schroeder (ed.). New York: Bantam Books, 1968: 79–80.
“OOB and the Playwright (Two Commentaries).” Works 1.2 (Winter 1968): 70–73.
Untitled autobiographical statement. News of the American Place Theatre 3.3 (April 1971): 1–2.
Untitled comment. In Contemporary Dramatists. James Vinson (ed.). London: St. James, 1973.
Untitled statement. In “Symposium: Playwriting in America.” Yale/Theater 4 (Winter 1973): 26–27.
“News Blues.” Time Out [London] n. 222 (31 May–6 June 1974): 17.
“Less Than Half a Minute.” Time Out [London] n. 228 (12–18 July 1974): 16–17.
“Emotional Tyranny.” Theatre Quarterly 4.15 (August–October 1974): 22.
Letter. Village Voice 13 June 1977: 44.
“Peter Handke’s Inner Self.” Vanity Fair (September 1984): 106–7.
“True Dylan.” Esquire (July 1987): 57–68.
Interviews and articles based on interviews
Gussow, Mel. “Sam Shepard: Writer on the Way Up.” New York Times 12 November 1969: 42.
Khan, Naseem. “Free Form Playwright.” Time Out [London] (13–17 July 1972): 30–31.
White, Michael. “Underground Landscapes.” Manchester Guardian 20 February 1974: 8.
Chubb, Kenneth, et al. “Metaphors, Mad Dogs, and Old Time Cowboys.” Theatre Quarterly 4 (August–October 1974): 3–16. Reprinted in American Dreams. Marranca (ed.): 187–209.
Oppenheim, Irene, and Victor Fascio. “The Most Promising Playwright in American Today is Sam Shepard.” Village Voice 27 October 1975: 81–82.
Downey, Roger. “Inside the Words.” Time Out [London] (22–28 April 1977): 11.
Drake, Sylvia. “Sam Shepard: A Play for Every Lifestyle.” Los Angeles Times 21 October 1977, Calendar section: 1, 58, 62.
verMeulen, Michael. “Sam Shepard, Yes, Yes, Yes.” Esquire 93 (February 1980): 79–81, 85–86.
Wren, Scott Christopher. “Camp Shepard: Exploring the Geography of Character.” West Coast Plays 7 (Fall 1980): 75–106.
Ansen, David. “The Reluctant Star.” Newsweek 17 November 1980: 117–18.
Coe, Robert. “The Saga of Sam Shepard.” New York Times Magazine 23 November 1980: 56–58, 118–24. Reprinted as “Sam Shepard – Playwright Laureate of the West.” San Francisco Chronicle 21 December 1980, Datebook section: 35–38.
McBride, Stewart. “Sam Shepard.” Christian Science Monitor 23 December 1980: B2–3.
Goldberg, Robert. “Sam Shepard – Off Broadway’s Street Cowboy.” Rolling Stone College Papers (Winter 1980): 43–45.
Dark, John. “The ‘True West’ Interviews.” West Coast Plays 9 (Summer 1981): 51–71.
McFerran, Ann. “Poet of Post-War Americana.” Time Out [London] (4–10 December 1981): 24–25.
“Joe Chaikin Going On.” [Conversation between Shepard and Chaikin] Film, 1983. Performing Arts Research Center, New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
Weiner, Bernard. “Waiting for a Western.” San Francisco Chronicle 9 February 1983: 54–55.
Lippman, Amy. “A Conversation with Sam Shepard.” Harvard Advocate (March 1983): 2–6, 44–46. Reprinted Gamut 5 (1984): 11–27. Reprinted as “Rhythm and Truths: an Interview with Sam Shepard.” American Theatre 1.1 (1984): 9–13, 40–41. Reprinted as “An Interview with Sam Shepard.” Dialogue (April 1985): 50, 58–59.
Goodman, Joan. “The Good Shepard.” US 11 April 1983: 76–77.
Dark, John. “A Conversation with Sam Shepard about a Very Corny Subject.” San Francisco (September 1983): 68–72.
Hamill, Pete. “The New American Hero.” New York 16 (5 December 1983): 75–76, 78, 80, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 95, 96–98, 100, 102.
Hamill, Pete. “Playwright Shepard: On the Set . . . and Behind the Scenes.” Boston Globe 23 December 1983: 38–39.
Kakutani, Michiko. “Myths, Dreams, Realities – Sam Shepard’s America.” New York Times 29 January 1984: B1, B26–28.
Vincent, Jean-Pierre (ed.). “A Long Ride: Interview with Sam Shepard.” Paris, Texas press kit. Berlin: Road Movies, 1984: 15–17.
Goldberg, Robert. “Sam Shepard, American Original.” Playboy 31 (March 1984): 90, 112, 192–93.
Peachment, Chris. “The Time Out Interview: American Hero.” Time Out [London] 731 (23–29 August 1984): 14–17.
Fay, Stephen. “Renaissance Man Rides Out of the West.” Sunday Times Magazine [London] 26 August 1984: 16, 19.
McCrary-Boyd, Blanche. “The Natural.” American Film: Magazine of the Film and TV Arts 10 (October 1984): 22–26, 91–92. Reprinted as “True West!” The Face [London] n. 59 (March 1985): 22–26.
Fay, Stephen. “The Silent Type.” Vogue 175 (1985): 213–18.
Kroll, Jack. “Who’s That Tall Dark Stranger?” Newsweek 106 (11 November 1985): 68–74.
Freedman, Samuel G. “Sam Shepard and the Mythic Family.” New York Times 1 December 1985, Section 2: 1, 20.
Wetzsteon, Ross. “Unknown Territory.” Village Voice 10 December 1985: 55–56.
Cott, Jonathan. “The Rolling Stone Interview: Sam Shepard.” Rolling Stone (18 December 1986–1 January 1987): 166, 168, 170, 172, 198, 200.
Sessums, Kevin. “Sam Shepard: Geography of a Horse Dreamer.” Interview (September 1988): 7–78.
Allen, Jennifer. “The Man on the High Horse.” Esquire (November 1988): 141–44, 146, 148, 150–51.
Rosen, Carol. “Silent Tongues: Sam Shepard’s Exploration of Emotional Territory.” Village Voice 4 August 1992: 34–42.
Rosen, Carol. “Emotional Territory: an Interview with Sam Shepard,” Modern Drama 36.1 (1993): 1–11.
Almereyda, Michael. “Sam Shepard: The All-American Cultural Icon at 50.” Arena (May/June 1994): 62–69.
Brantley, Ben. “Sam Shepard, Storyteller.” New York Times 13 November 1994: H1, H26.
Coen, Stephanie. “Things at Stake Here.” American Theatre 13 (September 1996): 28.
Simpson, Mona, Jeanne McCulloch, and Benjamin Howe. “The Art of Theatre XII: Sam Shepard,” The Paris Review, 142 (Spring 1997): 204–25.
Matthew Roudané, “Shepard on Shepard: an Interview,” in The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard, Matthew Roudané (ed.). Cambridge University Press, 2002: 64–80.

Secondary works

Biographies
Oumano, Ellen. Sam Shepard: The Life and Work of an American Dreamer. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
Shewey, Don. Sam Shepard. 2nd edn. New York: Da Capo Press, 1997.
Tucker, Martin. Sam Shepard. New York: Continuum, 1992.
Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself. BBC Video Production (dir. Oren Jacoby), 1997.
Bibliographies and checklists
Bigsby, C. W. E., Kenneth Chubb, and Malcolm Page. “Theatre Checklist No. 3: Sam Shepard.” Theatrefacts 3 (August/October 1974): 3–11.
Bottoms, Stephen J. In The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis. Cambridge University Press, 1998: 293–96.
Callens, Johan. “Bibliography on Sam Shepard.” ABES, Swets & Zeitlinger (On-line and CD-ROM), 2000.
Carpenter, Charles A. Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1966–80: An International Bibliography. University of Toronto Press, 1986.
DeRose, David J. In Sam Shepard. New York: Twayne, 1992: 151–64.
Dugdale, John (ed.). File on Shepard. London: Methuen, 1989.
Eddleman, Floyd E. American Drama Criticism: Interpretations, 1890–1977. Hamden, CT: Shoe String, 1979.
Hart, Lynda. In Sam Shepard’s Metaphorical Stages. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987: 149–52.
Hart, Lynda. In American Dramatists: Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series, vol. III. Matthew Roudané (ed.). Detroit: Gale Research, 1989: 325–60.
King, Kimball. In Ten Modern American Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1982: 197–213.
Kleb, William. “Sam Shepard.” In American Playwrights Since 1945: A Guide to Scholarship, Criticism, and Performance. Philip C. Kolin (ed.). New York: Greenwood Press, 1989: 387–419.
Oumano, Ellen. In Sam Shepard: The Life and Work of an American Dreamer. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986: 163–70.
Salem, James. A Guide to Critical Reviews: Part I: American Drama. 1909–1982. 3rd edn. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1984.
“Sam Shepard.” In Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series, vol. XXII. Detroit: Gale Research, 1988: 422–29.
“Sam Shepard.” In Current Bibliography, 40, 4 (April 1979): 33–37.
Sam Shepard Web Site. Ed. Gary Grant. 27 March 2000. Bucknell University. 17 June 2000 <http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/theatre%5Fdance/Shepard/shepard.html>.
Tucker, Martin. In Sam Shepard. New York: Continuum, 1992: 168–72.
Wolter, Jürgen C. “Sam Shepard in German-Speaking Countries: A Classified Bibliography.” Studies in American Drama 1945–Present 6.2 (1991): 195–225.
Critical studies: books
Adolphs, Ulrich. Die Tyrannei der Bilder: Sam Shepard’s Dramen. New York: Lang, 1990 [German].
Benet, Carol. Sam Shepard on the German Stage: Critics, Politics, Myths. New York: Lang, 1993.
Bottoms, Stephen J. The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Callens, Johan. From Middleton and Rowley’s “Changeling” to Sam Shepard’s “Bodyguard”: A Contemporary Appropriation of a Renaissance Drama. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1997.
Chocrón, Isaac. El Teatro de Sam Shepard: de Imágenes a Personajes. Caracas, Venezuela: Monte Avila, 1991 [Spanish].
DeRose, David J. Sam Shepard. New York: Twayne, 1992.
Graham, Laura J. Sam Shepard: Theme, Image, and the Director. New York: Lang, 1995.
Hart, Lynda. Sam Shepard’s Metaphorical Stages. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Krekel, Michael. Von Cowboys bis True West: Sam Shepard’s Dramen. New York: Lang, 1986 [German].
McGhee, Jim. True Lies: The Architecture of the Fantastic in the Plays of Sam Shepard. New York: Lang, 1993.
Mottram, Ron. Inner Landscapes: The Theater of Sam Shepard. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984.
Patraka, Vivian M., and Mark Siegel. Sam Shepard. Boise State University Press, 1985.
Perry, Frederick J. A Reconstruction-Analysis of “Buried Child” by Playwright Sam Shepard. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1992.
Taav, Michael. A Body Across the Map: The Father–Son Plays of Sam Shepard. New York: Lang, 1999.
Wade, Leslie A. Sam Shepard and the American Theatre. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Collections
Callens, Johan (ed.). Sam Shepard: Between the Margin and the Center. Parts I and II. New York: Harwood Academic, 1998.
King, Kimball (ed.). Sam Shepard: A Casebook. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.
Marranca, Bonnie (ed.). American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1981.
Sam Shepard and Contemporary American Drama. Spec. issue of Modern Drama 36 (1993): 1–166.
Wilcox, Leonard (ed.). Rereading Shepard: Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Critical studies: book sections
Auerbach, Doris. Sam Shepard, Arthur Kopit, and the Off-Broadway Theater. Boston: Twayne, 1982.
Bertin, Michael (ed.). The Play and its Critics: Essays for Eric Bentley. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986.
Bigsby, C. W. E. A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama, vol. III: Beyond Broadway. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Bigsby, C. W. E. Modern American Drama 1945–1990. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Blumenthal, Eileen. Joseph Chaikin: Exploring at the Boundaries of Theater. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Bock, Hedwig, and Albert Wertheim (eds.). Essays on Contemporary American Drama. Munich: Hueber, 1981.
Brater, Enoch (ed.). The Theatrical Gamut: Notes for a Post-Beckettian Stage (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995).
Burwick, Frederick, and Walter Page (eds.). Aesthetic Illusion: Theoretical and Historical Approaches. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1990.
Callens, Johan (ed.). American Literature and the Arts. Brussels: VUB, 1991.
Chénetier, Marc (ed.). Critical Angles: European Views of Contemporary American Literature. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Cohn, Ruby. New American Dramatists: 1960–1990. Revised edn. New York: Grove Press, 1991.
Debusscher, Gilbert, and Henry Schvey (eds.). New Essays on American Drama. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989.
Demastes, William. Beyond Naturalism: A New Realism in American Theatre. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Demastes, William (ed.). Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.
Friedman, Alan Warren, Charles Rossman, and Dina Scherzer (eds.). Beckett Translating/Translating Beckett. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 1987.
Ganz, Arthur. Afterword to Realms of the Self: Variations on a Theme in Modern Drama. New York University Press, 1980.
Geis, Deborah. Monologue in Contemporary American Drama. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 1993.
Gerould, Daniel (ed.). Melodrama. New York: New York Literary Forum, 1980.
Grabes, Herbert, Winifred Fluck, and Jürgen Schlaeger (eds.). REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, vol. IX. Tübingen, 1993.
Hall, Ann C. “A Kind of Alaska”: Women in the Plays of O’Neill, Pinter, and Shepard. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Herman, William. Understanding Contemporary American Drama. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987.
Kennedy, Andrew. Dramatic Dialogue: The Duologue of Personal Encounter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Malkin, Jeanette R. Verbal Violence in Contemporary Drama: From Handke to Shepard. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Marranca, Bonnie, and Gautam Dasgupta. American Playwrights: A Critical Survey. New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1981.
Maufort, Marc (ed.). O’Neill and the Emergence of American Drama. Atlanta: Rodopi, 1989.
Maufort, Marc (ed.). Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama. New York: Lang, 1995.
McDonough, Carla J. Staging Masculinity: Male Identity in Contemporary American Drama. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland Press, 1997.
McNamara, Brook, Jerry Rojo, and Richard Schechner. Theatres, Spaces, Environments: Eighteen Projects. New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1975.
Michel, Pierre, Diana Phillips, and Eric Lee (eds.). Belgian Essays on Language and Literature. Liège: Liège Language and Literature, 1991.
Orr, John. Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture: Plays and Performance from Beckett to Shepard. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.
Parker, Dorothy (ed.). Essays on Modern American Drama: Williams, Miller, Albee and Shepard. University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Raben, Estelle Manette. Major Strategies in Twentieth-Century Drama: Apocalyptic Vision, Allegory and Open Form. New York: Lang, 1989.
Robinson, Marc. The Other American Drama. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Roudané, Matthew. American Drama since 1960: A Critical History. New York: Twayne, 1996.
Schlueter, June (ed.). Feminist Rereadings of Modern American Drama. Rutherford, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989.
Simard, Rodney. Postmodern Drama: Contemporary Playwrights in America and Britain. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.
Vanden Heuvel, Michael. Performing Drama/Dramatizing Performance: Alternative Theater and the Dramatic Text. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.
Webster, Duncan. Looka Yonder: The Imaginary America of Populist Culture. London: Routledge, 1988.
Wilmeth, Don B., and Christopher Bigsby (eds.). The Cambridge History of American Theatre, vol. III. Cambridge University Press, 2000.