ENGL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sam Shepard, Place Identity
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Dramatic performance live/on stage recorded in text drama/theatre: drama literary composition, usually in dialogue form, centering on actions of. Ctional characters text play -> physical text/paratext -> reader theatre structure built for preforming drama institution of dramatic performance at the play as it is acted out on stage theatre play -> staging/actors/audience -> reader. 1964 (shepard"s rst plays) ideas of community, citizenship beginning to unravel. Vietnam war escalating civil rights movement questioning american morals narratives challenging assumptions about what america has been, is, will become comforting stories that held america together beginning to fall apart - Shepard"s characters struggling to come up with new order/sense of. America - looking for genuine, authentic force in a word where that is very hard to nd.
