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Shaffer, Peter Levin
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Shaffer, Peter Levin (1926– ), playwright. His first play,
Five Finger Exercise (1958), was followed by many other successes, including
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964, pub. 1965), an epic about the conquest of Peru;
Black Comedy (1965, pub. 1967), a farce;
Equus (1973), a drama about an analyst's relationship with his horse-obsessed patient; and
Amadeus (1979, pub. 1980), which deals with the nature of creativity through a portrayal of the composers Mozart and Salieri.
His twin brother Anthony Shaffer (1926–2001), author of
Sleuth (1970, pub. 1971), was also a successful playwright.
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Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama. By MADELEINE MACMURRAGH-KAVANAGH. Basingstoke...xiii + 208 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Sheridan Morley wrote that Peter Shaffer 'has always been able, even in the heart of the commercial theatre...
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Interplay snags rights to Peter Shaffer's works
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/16/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...successful and gifted playwrights, Peter Shaffer, the author of "Equus," "Amadeus...rights to perform all eleven of Shaffer's dramatic works over a four...and significantly revised form. Shaffer also has agreed to visit Chicago...
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Drama humano y Universal.(Peter Shaffer, escritor Británico)(TT: Human and universal drama.)(TA: Peter Shaffer, British writer)
Magazine article from: Siempre!; 10/19/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...teatrales, el tambin dramaturgo ingls Peter Shaffer figura entre los dramaturgos anglosajones...su no menos acre Comedia negra. Shaffer regresaba a una ciudad deslumbrante...escnica local de Manolo Fbregas, Peter Shaffer ensea una misma obsesin por...
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A playwright's ode to the theatrical // Peter Shaffer offers a cry from heart
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/7/1992; ; 700+ words
; British playwright Peter Shaffer recalls a memorial service he attended...its panache." In fact, by then, Shaffer had already made a significant mark...Complex themes in popular terms Shaffer's ability to deal with complex themes...
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Sánchez Navarro tradujo, produce y dirige 'Equus', la obra maestra de Peter Shaffer, a reponerse con Héctor Bonilla en el Teatro México. (Rafael Sánchez Navarro, actor y productor mexicano)(TT: Sánchez Navarro translated, produces, and directs 'Equus', the master work by Peter Shaffer, in the reprise with Héctor Bonilla at Theater Mexico) (TA: Rafael Sánchez Navarro, Mexican actor and producer)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 2/9/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...con Equus, "la obra maestra de Peter Shaffer", empez hace 20 aos. Por eso...teatro, ah se hablaba bastante de Shaffer, de su propuesta mgica, donde...otorgarme los derechos de Equus, Shaffer mand un recado donde dice que le...
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Naked ambition ; When Thea Sharrock agreed to direct 'Equus', she took on a huge responsibility - doing justice to Peter Shaffer's seminal play, and handling Daniel Radcliffe's transition from boy wizard to sex symbol. Alice Jones reports
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...End and on Broadway in the 1970s, Peter Shaffer wrote: "In London, Equus caused...clothes and his boy wizard tag. Shaffer's play about a teenager who develops...National Theatre production starred Peter Firth (lately seen as Harry in the...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard/ Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer Comedy Theatre at last night's first night.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 4/23/1998; 646 words
; ...themselves, Sir Tom Stoppard and Peter Shaffer, are now rightly revered figures...two) of the actresses. In the Shaffer, a South Kensington apartment is...grip in the final phase and the Shaffer finally needs crueller control...
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 "Morning Call (Allentown, PA)")
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Whitehall treasurer to seek Lehigh County controller's seat: Incumbent Peter Shaffer also to run. He will seek third term.
Newspaper article from: Morning Call (Allentown, PA); 1/17/2007; 501 words
; ...current county controller, Republican Peter Shaffer, intends to pursue his third term...election. Already, Reaman and Shaffer have traded shots. Reaman said...County employees have told him Shaffer, who has a private accounting firm...
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Faces and Masks: Peter Shaffer's Amadeus from Stage to Screen
Magazine article from: Literature/Film Quarterly; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the scene fades to black. Amadeus began as a play by Peter Shaffer at London's National Theatre in 1979, was transplanted...screen (with still more revisions) in a film adapted by Shaffer, and produced and directed by the team of Saul Zaentz...
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THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN By Peter Shaffer Royal National Theatre - FIRST NIGHT REVIEW.(Theater review)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 4/13/2006; 693 words
; ...Pullman play. Now, in Holy Week, there opens a dusty Peter Shaffer effort which takes repeated jabs at the Christianity...camps him up like an Afro version of Graham Norton. Mr Shaffer pushes hard a view of man's need for spiritual self...
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Peter Shaffer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Peter Shaffer , 1926-, English playwright, b. Liverpool...films. Bibliography: See G. A. Plunka, Peter Shaffer: Roles, Rites and Rituals in the...Theater (1988); C. J. Gianakaras, ed., Peter Shaffer: A Casebook (1991); M. K...
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Peter Levin Shaffer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Peter Levin Shaffer Peter Levin Shaffer (born 1926) became one of England's most popular and...in the United States, where he chose to live. Born May 15, 1926, Peter Shaffer worked as a conscript in the coal mines in England from 1944...
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Shaffer, Peter Levin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Shaffer, Peter Levin (1926– ...1963), written for Joan Littlewood . Shaffer's next play, The Royal Hunt of the...fantasizing guide to a country house. Shaffer's twin brother Anthony achieved an unexpected...
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Shaffer, Peter (Levin)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Shaffer, Peter [Levin] (b. 1926), playwright...and Lettice and Lovage (1990). Shaffer's plays often return to the theme of...Mozart, etc.). His twin brother Anthony SHAFFER, also a playwright, has been represented...
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Shaffer, Peter
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Shaffer, Peter (1926– ) English dramatist. Following the success of Five Finger Exercise (1960), he wrote The Private Ear and The Public Eye (1962). Schaffer's plays Equus (1973) and Amadeus (1979) were both made into films.
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