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- His dialogue ranges from realistic banter to highly metaphoric and figurative speech, to the beat and patter of rock and roll, to free-form, yet highly complex, jazz-like improvisational riffs.
literariness.org › 2019/05/11 › analysis-of-sam-shepards-playsAnalysis of Sam Shepard’s Plays - Literary Theory and Criticism
May 11, 2019 · The play suggests that the imaginative world is just as “real” as the actual world. In a series of plays from the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s, Shepard explores isolation and alienation by employing metaphoric sets, characterizations, and actions.
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His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class. [4]
The Second Shepherd’s Play reveals the tumultuous social, political, and economic climate of late-fifteenth-century England. Deeply impoverished laypeople—just like Coll, Gyb, and Daw in the play—were oppressed by wealthy landowners, being forced to work long hours for very little pay.
The Second Shepherd’s Play is a “mystery play,” which is a Medieval play meant to simultaneously entertain the audience and teach them biblical lessons. Echoing the mystery play’s twofold purpose, the songs in The Second Shepherd’s Play are meant to be both engaging and didactic.
The Second Shepherds' Play is part of the Wakefield play cycle and was traditionally performed during the feast of Corpus Christi, which celebrated the Catholic Church's teaching that the body of Christ was present in the Holy Eucharist. (The word Eucharist is derived from the Greek and means thanksgiving.
The Second Shepherds' Play is a medieval mystery play ultimately focusing upon the birth of Jesus. It would have been performed at Christmas time, and is written in a markedly...
Buried Child is a play written by Sam Shepard that was first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright.
