This book looks at five American playwrights--Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, David Mamet, Charles Fuller, and Marsha Norman. What they have in common is simply that they are members of the same generation of writers. The excitement in Shepard's plays is in the imagination and driving energy of his speech. Wilson's gift is for conversation that sounds true to character; you wince at Mamet's words as you would to a raised fist; Fuller's language is liveliest when he uses idiomatic black speech; and Norman's language is stripped to its essence--lean, urgent, concentrated. ISBN 0-89950-283-0: $24.95.
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