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Welding subject and form, the opening essay recapitulates with great lyricism Shepard's life and work in an attempt to map the excessive emotional terrain of the playwright's characters: fragmented, traumatized transients ruthlessly given over to incomprehensible, elementally violent passions that relentlessly attract and repel, consuming past and future.
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inner library, starving class, buried child
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Sam Shepard, New York, Angel City, Lie of the Mind, Melodrama Play, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, Eugene O'Neill, Grand Inquisitor, States of Shock, Iron John, Mad Dog Blues, Overseas Publishers Association, The Unseen Hand, American Dreams, Bonnie Marranca, David Savran, Eric Bentley, Robert Bly, Young Musician, Fairleigh Dickinson, Harwood Academic Publishers, June Schlueter, Open Theatre, Rereading Shepard
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