An Entity of Type: written work, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Some critics consider it part of a Family Trilogy that includes Buried Child (1979) and True West (1980). Others consider it part of a quintet that includes Fool for Love (1983) and A Lie of the Mind (1985). The play was commissioned by Joseph Papp and premiered in London in 1977 before playing at Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in 1978.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Some critics consider it part of a Family Trilogy that includes Buried Child (1979) and True West (1980). Others consider it part of a quintet that includes Fool for Love (1983) and A Lie of the Mind (1985). The play was commissioned by Joseph Papp and premiered in London in 1977 before playing at Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in 1978. (en)
dbo:author
dbo:characterInPlay
  • Slater
  • Malcolm
  • Ella
  • Ellis
  • Emerson
  • Emma
  • Taylor
  • Wesley
  • Weston
dbo:premiereDate
  • 1977-04-21 (xsd:date)
dbo:premierePlace
dbo:premiereYear
  • 1977-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:settingOfPlay
  • a derelict farm house in theCalifornia Central Valley
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 4681195 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 22063 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1020900821 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:characters
  • Weston (en)
  • Ella (en)
  • Taylor (en)
  • Ellis (en)
  • Emerson (en)
  • Malcolm (en)
  • Slater (en)
  • Wesley (en)
  • Emma (en)
dbp:genre
  • Drama (en)
dbp:name
  • Curse of the Starving Class (en)
dbp:origLang
  • English (en)
dbp:place
  • Royal Court Theatre, London (en)
dbp:premiere
  • 1977-04-21 (xsd:date)
dbp:setting
  • a derelict farm house in the California Central Valley (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:writer
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Some critics consider it part of a Family Trilogy that includes Buried Child (1979) and True West (1980). Others consider it part of a quintet that includes Fool for Love (1983) and A Lie of the Mind (1985). The play was commissioned by Joseph Papp and premiered in London in 1977 before playing at Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in 1978. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Curse of the Starving Class (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Curse of the Starving Class (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License