SOURCE: An introduction to Sam Shepard: Seven Plays, Bantam Books, 1981, pp. ix-xxv.
Gilman is an American critic, editor, and educator whose books include The Confusion of Realms (1969) and The Making of Modern Drama (1974). In the following essay, he outlines biographical and cultural influences on Shepard's work and finds that the search for identity is a central theme in the author's plays.
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