14 years of change in sam shepard's six plays

Fourteen Years of Change in Sam Shepard’s Six Plays
Sam Shepard wrote his first two plays, Cowboys and Rock Garden at the age of twenty. Three years later, in 1966 his plays Chicago, Icarus’s Mother and Red Cross won the Village Voice Obie Award for distinguished Playwriting. In 1968 Forensic and the Navigators and Melodrama Play won him his third Obie. In this paper I will focus on three of these plays, Chicago, Icarus’s Mother, and Melodrama Play, and compare them with some of the plays he wrote in the late seventies and early eighties, namely Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child and True West.
The first group of plays I will talk about all consist of only one act. They are highly experimental both in language and content. They have a certain feeling of immediacy and it is obvious that Sam Shepard most probably wrote them at one sitting and did not change anything he wrote down.
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