Rereading Shepard

Rereading Shepard draws together 13 original theoretical perspectives on one of America''s most important contemporary playwrights. Representing a range of critical appraoches - including semiotics, deconstruction, and feminism - the essays address recent debates emerging in Shepard criticism. These include the status of Shepard''s texts within the modernist tradition on the one hand and a developing post-modernism on the other, and the feminist debate over Shepard''s drama - does it reinforce a masculinist world or does it provide some oppositional stance toward patriarchal ''master narratives''?