Kicking a dead horse: burials and resurrections

Varró, G.: Kicking a dead horse: burials and resurrections.
Br. Am. stud. 16, 45-54, 2010.

DEA

title:

authors:

Varró Gabriella

published:

2010

type:

article

genre:

research article/review article

journal:

British and American Studies (ISSN: 1224-3086)

language:

English

HAC:

Humanities, Literary and Cultural Studies

subjects:

Kicking a Dead Horse, Sam Shepard, authenticity, alter-egos, Beckett, minimalism, re-writing, forefathers

abstract:

Sam Shepard's Kicking a Dead Horse (2007) revisits the author's former themes as well as summons the ghosts of some great theatrical masters in whose shadows Shepard is composing this time around. The paper identifies the theatrical ?corpses" (Miller, Beckett, an d Shakespeare) Shepard resurrects, and attempts to find answers to the possible causes of Shepard's exhumation of these particular dead theatrical fathers. The dual motifs of burial and rebirth guiding the drama also determine the focus of this critical analysis.