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Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard

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Author Biography

Name: Sam Shepard
Variant Name: Samuel Shepard Rogers, VII
Birth Date: November 5, 1943
Place of Birth: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: playwright, actor

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Biography of Sam Shepard
1456 words, approx. 4.9 pages
Sam Shepard (Samuel Shepard Rogers VII; born 1943) began his career as a playwright in the lively off-off-Broadway scene of the 1960s and became one of the United States' most prolific and acclaimed dramatists. He was also a film actor, a stage and film...
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Biography of Sam Shepard
6583 words, approx. 21.9 pages
November 5, 1943. Samuel "Steve" Shepard Rogers "...plunged into the world head first and, although covered with blood, my attitude was very friendly.... "My name came down through seven generations of men with the same name each naming the first son the...
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Biography of Sam Shepard
5445 words, approx. 18.2 pages
Although Sam Shepard has written more than forty plays and five screenplays, including collaborating on Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970) and Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas (1984); has directed two movies based on his scripts, Far North (1988)...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Curse of the Starving Class Information
151 words, approx. 1 pages
Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard which, along with Buried Child, A Lie of the Mind and True West, comprises the playwright's family tragedies. First performed on March 2,1978 by the New York Shakespeare Festival, the production was...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
The curse of the writing class
11/15/1997: 695 words, approx. 2 pages
a weekly column by writers in their 20s. Carolyn Bertrand of Brookline is thankful to be finished with her first novel and is starting her second, a collaboration with the grandmother who passed on the curse in the first place. People always give me...
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The Boston Globe
Curses of the upper class
01/19/1995: 349 words, approx. 1 pages
The sound Saturday night at the Middle East Upstairs? Well, it was a bit like the full-bore punk of the Sex Pistols, but the singer wasn't railing against the establishment. He was, rather, ranting: "You can't get good help anymore!" Singer-guitarist Nat Freedberg...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
441 words, approx. 2 pages
Sam Shepard is phenomenal. He is the best practicing American playwright, I think, now that Tennessee Williams is doodling…. Curse of the Starving Class … is another of Shepard's heartbreakers—it contains so much, yet it finally comes to not enough…. [It] deals with California sheep raisers and thus immediately strikes a distinctive Shepard note. He often deals with non-urban people, often in the West; most of our playwrights are urban in setting and feeling….
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Critical Essay by Thomas P. Adler
343 words, approx. 1 pages
[In Curse of the Starving Class] Shepard displays some of the same anti-capitalistic bias and revolutionary fervor Shaw once did, but here without the novelty in form that is almost a trademark of Shepard's earlier plays. Nothing of the rock culture in this one; instead, we are given an old-fashioned, evidently autobiographical, family problem play, mostly naturalistic (though punctuated by poetic cadenzas) and so banal in its outlines as to make us wonder if this alltime favorite genre has not run i...


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