Fool for Love and Other Plays

Sam Shepard

Bantam, 1984 - Drama - 307 pages

"Here are eight of Pulitzer Prize-winning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country" - a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciousness, our fears and fantasies"--Back cover.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Fool for Love: 17
• Angel City: 59

About the author

Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers III on an army base in Illinois on November 5, 1943. He briefly studied agriculture at Mount San Antonio College, but dropped out to move to New York in 1962. He wrote more than 55 plays during his lifetime. His first play was produced off-off-Broadway when he was 19 years old and he won the first of his 8 Obie Awards when he was 23 years old. His plays included Chicago, The Tooth of Crime, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, The Late Henry Moss, Heartless, and A Particle of Dread. He received the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1978. He was an actor for both film and television. His films included Days of Heaven, The Right Stuff, and Baby Boom. He also appeared in the Netflix series Bloodline. He wrote or co-wrote several screenplays including Far North and Renaldo and Clara with Bob Dylan. He also wrote songs with John Cale and Bob Dylan including Brownsville Girl. He wrote several books including Cruising Paradise and Motel Chronicles. He died from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on July 27, 2017 at the age of 73.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fool for Love and Other Plays; A Bantam Book; American studies collection
• Author: Sam Shepard
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Bantam, 1984
• ISBN: 0553341294, 9780553341294
• Length: 307 pages
• Subjects: Drama / American / General; Drama / General; Poetry / General