1. Pete Hamill, “The New American Hero,” New York 16 (1983): 98.
2. Sam Shepard, Icarus’s Mother in Sam Shepard: Plays: 1 (London: Methuen, 1996), 75.
3. Christopher Bigsby, A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume Three, Beyond Broadway (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985), 224.
4. Bradford R. Collins, “Modern Romance: Licht ens tern’s Comic Book Paintings” American Art 17 (2003): 77.
5. Luther S. Luedtke, “From Fission to Fusion: Sam Shepard’s Nuclear Families,” in New Essays on American Drama, ed. Gilbert Debusscher and Henry I. Schvey (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989), 143.