SOURCE: ";Sam Shepard's Buried Child: The Ironic Use of Folklore,"; in Modern Drama, Vol. XXVI, No. 4, December, 1983, pp. 486-91.
In the essay below, Nash finds that Shepard utilizes elements of traditional folklore in Buried Child, creating ";a modern version of the central theme of Western mythology, the death and rebirth of the Corn King. ";
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