1. Bonnie Marranca, ed., American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard (New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1981), unnumbered Preface.
2. Christopher Bigsby, ‘Sam Shepard: Word and Image’, in Critical Angles: European Views of Contemporary American Literature, ed. Marc Chenetier (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), p. 214.
3. Richard Gilman, Introduction to Seven Plays, by Sam Shepard (New York: Bantam, 1981), p. xi.
4. Ron Mottram, Inner Landscapes (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984), p. vii.
5. Ibid., p. xii.