Critical Essays
Drama, Script, Theatre, Performance
Richard Schechner
Drama Review, 17, September 1973, 5-36
Essays & Biographies
Critical Essays
Defusion of Menace in Plays of Sam Shepard
Charles R. Bachman
Modern Drama, 19, December 1976, 405-16
Critical Essays
Alphabetical Shepard: The Play of Words
Bonnie Marranca
Performing Arts Publications, 1981, 13-33
Literary Studies
American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard
Bonnie Marranca
New York
Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1981
Critical Essays
Sam Shepard: Escape Artist
Ross Wetzsteon
Partisan Review, 49 / 2, 1982, 253-61
Critical Essays
Rock n’ Roll Jesus with a Cowboy Mouth: Sam Shepard Is the Inkblot of the 80’s
John Lion
American Theatre, I, April 1984, 4-8
Literary Studies
Inner Landscapes: The Theater of Sam Shepard
Ron Mottram
Columbia
University of Missouri Press, 1984
Literary Studies
Sam Shepard
Vivian M. Patraka and Mark Siegel
Boise
State University Press, 1985
Biographies
Sam Shepard: The Life and Work of an American Dreamer
Ellen Oumano
New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1986
Literary Studies
Von Cowboys bis True West: Sam Shepard’s Dramen
Michael Krekel
New York
Lang, 1986
Critical Essays
Shifting Perspectives: Combining Shepard and Rauschenberg
Jay Gibson Cima
Theatre Journal, 38 / I, 1986, 67-81
Literary Studies
Sam Shepard’s Metaphorical Stages
Lynda Hart
Westport, Conn.
Greenwood Press, 1987
Literary Studies
Sam Shepard: A Casebook
Kimball King
New York
Garland, 1988
Literary Studies
Die Tyrannei der Bilder: Sam Shepard’s Dramen
Ulrich Adolphs
New York
Lang, 1990
Critical Essays
Sam Shepard and the Dysfunctional American Family: Therapeutic Perspectives
Landy F. Sparr
American Journal of Psychotherapy, 44, October 1990, 563-76
Literary Studies
El Teatro de Sam Shepard: de Imágenes a Personajes
Isaac Chocrón
Caracas, Venezuela
Monte Avila, 1991
Critical Essays
Two Opposite Animals: Structural Pairing in Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind
Gregory W. Lanier
Modern Drama, 34, September 1991, 410-21
Literary Studies
Sam Shepard
Martin Tucker
New York
Continuum, 1992
Literary Studies
A Reconstruction-Analysis of “Buried Child” by Playwright Sam Shepard
Frederick J. Perry
Lewiston, NY
Edwin Mellen, 1992
Literary Studies
Sam Shepard
David J. DeRose
New York
Twayne, 1992
Biographies
Sam Shepard
Martin Tucker
New York, Continuum, 1992
Critical Essays
Shepard’s Plays: Stylistic and Thematic Ties
Robert B. Heilman
Sewanee Review , 100 / 4, Fall 1992, 630-44
Critical Essays
A Worm in the Wood: The Father-Son Relationship in the Plays of Sam Shepard
Henry I. Schvey
Modern Drama, 36, March 1993, 12-26
Literary Studies
Sam Shepard on the German Stage: Critics, Politics, Myths.
Carol Benet
New York
Peter Lang, 1993
Critical Essays
States of War in Sam Shepard’s States of Shock
Susanne Willadt
Modern Drama, 36 / 1, March 1993, 147-66
Literary Studies
True Lies: The Architecture of the Fantastic in the Plays of Sam Shepard
Jim McGee
New York
Lang, 1993
Critical Essays
Cain, Canaanites, and Philistines in Sam Shepard’s True West
Jeffrey D. Hoeper
Modern Drama, 36, March 1993, 76-82
Literary Studies
Rereading Shepard: Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard
Leonard Wilcox
New York
St. Martin’s Press, 1993
Critical Essays
An American Cowboy on the English Fringe: Sam Shepard’s London Audience
Steven Putzel
Modern Drama, 36, March 1993, 131-46
Critical Essays
American Clocks: Sam Shepard’s Time Plays
Enoch Brater
Modern Drama, 37, Winter 1994, 603-12
Literary Studies
Sam Shepard: Theme, Image, and the Director
Laura J. Graham
New York
Lang, 1995
Biographies
Sam Shepard
Don Shewey
New York, Da Capo Press, 1997
Literary Studies
From Middleton and Rowley’s “Changeling” to Sam Shepard’s “Bodyguard”: A Contemporary Appropriation of a Renaissance Drama
Johan Callens
Lewiston, NY
Edwin Mellen, 1997
Critical Essays
Nowhere Man and the Twentieth-Century Cowboy: Images of Identity and American History in Sam Shepard’s True West
Megan Williams
Modern Drama, 40 / 1, Spring 1997, 57-73
Literary Studies
Sam Shepard and the American Theatre
Leslie Wade
Westport, Conn.
Greenwood Press, 1997
Critical Essays
Images of Women in Shepard’s Theatre
Charles G. Whiting
Modern Drama, 33 / 4, December 1997, 494-506
Literary Studies
Sam Shepard: Between the Margin and the Center – Parts I and II
ed. Johan Callens
New York
Harwood Academic, 1998
Critical Essays
Staging ‘Things’: Realism and the Theatrical Object in Shepard’s Theatre
Stanton B. Garner Jr.
Contemporary Theatre Review, 8 / 3, 1998, 55-66
Literary Studies
The Theatre of Sam Shepard; States of Crisis
Stephen J. Bottom
New York
Cambridge University Press, 1998
Critical Essays
Indian Country: Sam Shepard and the Cultural Other
David J DeRose
Contemporary Theatre Review, 8 / 4, 1998, 55-73
Literary Studies
A Body across the Map: The Father-Son Plays of Sam Shepard
Michael Taav
New York
Lang, 2000
Literary Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard
ed. Matthew Roudané
Cambridge
University Printing House, 2002
Literary Studies
Sam Shepard. Bloom’s Major Dramatists
ed. Harold Bloom
Philadelphia
Chelsea House, 2003
Literary Studies
Sam Shepard; A “Poetic Rodeo”
Carol Rosen
New York
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Critical Essays
Negotiating the American West in Sam Shepard’s Family Plays
J. Chris Westgate
Modern Drama, 48, Winter 2005, 726-43
Critical Essays
Sam Shepard’s Anti-Western Silent Tongue as Cultural Critique
Sandra Wynands
Canadian Review of American Studies, 35 / 3, 2005, 299-313
Critical Essays
Artistic Expression, Intimacy and the Primal Holon: Sam Shepard’s Suicide in B-flat and Tooth of Crime
William S. Haney, II
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, 15 / 1, 2006, 71-92
Literary Studies
Dis/figuring Sam Shepard
Johan Callens
New York
Lang, 2007
Critical Essays
There Is No Place Like Home: American Affirmation in Sam Shepard’s Unseen Hand
Darl Larsen
Journal of Popular Culture, 42, October 2009, 875-89
Critical Essays
Shhhhhhame: Silencing the Family Secret in Sam Shepard’s Buried Child
Benjamin Opipari
Style, 44, Spring/Summer 2010, 123-38
Literary Studies
Understanding Sam Shepard
James A. Crank
Columbia
University of South Carolina Press, 2012
Biographies
Sam Shepard: A Life
John J. Winters
Counterpoint; Reprint edition (March 20, 2018)