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Sam Shepard, the noted contemporary playwright and movie star, creates his own version of the American myth in a super-realistic, avant-garde world of cowboys, gangsters, artists and rock stars. Thirteen of Shepard's plays have appeared in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. To understand Shepard's reception, Carol Benet probes many neglected areas concerning the German language productions. She examines the roles of the translator, talent scout, agent, publisher, theater staff, critic, local government and even the program book in the reception of a foreign playwright. The answers elucidate a more fundamental question: How is the canon of dramatic literature established?
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The Author: Carol Ann Levin Benet received a B.A. in English and an M.A. in French from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature form the University of California, Berkeley. She has taugth Comparative Literature and French at UC Berkeley and Washington State University. As a drama critic in Marin County, Californaia, and a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Drama Critics Circle, Dr. Benet sees the theater in America from a privileged position. To research this book, she lived and travelled in Germany where she conducted interviews and visited archives and theaters.
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