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Creedon, Emma

 
9781137530578: Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance (What is Theatre?)

Sinopsis

This book argues that a consideration of Sam Shepard’s plays in the context of visual and theoretical Surrealism significantly succours our understanding of his experimental approach. Emma Creedon’s study reveals how Shepard’s plays rely on a veneer of realism that the playwright then actively exploits and rejects. In this mode, these plays indicate a sophisticated deconstruction of American realism and a manipulation of dramatic conventions; moreover, the incantatory functioning of his dramatic language reveals the influence of such Surrealists as Antonin Artaud. Indeed, this, along with his long admiration for and textual references to Samuel Beckett’s plays, positions him as a dramatist working within the European tradition of Absurdism.

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Emma Creedon has lectured at University College Dublin, Ireland and the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has also worked as a playwright and theatre director and her work has been published in the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English and Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics. Dr. Creedon was awarded her PhD from University College Dublin.

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