(Paperback)

The first title in the series, Critical Performance which combines performative texts with critical theory and personal reflection. Each volume in the series pairs a performance artist/playwright with a critical theorist in a dialogue aimed to elucidate both disciplines.

(Hardback)

Finding the dramatist difficult to classify, critics and scholars continue to search for the central direction of Shepard's creative development. Lynda Hart's study, which focuses on ten representative plays, is the first book to examine Shepard's growth and development as a dramatist within and against the historical tradition.