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	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Shaffer: Acclaimed Amadeus playwright
		Playwright Peter Shaffer, the Oscar-winning author of Amadeus, the portrait of Mozart, is to become a knight.
		Shaffer was born in Liverpool, England, on May 15, 1962, with a twin brother, Anthony, who also become an acclaimed writer.
		Shaffer studied history on a scholarship from Cambridge University, but did not go into drama straight away, working as a coal miner, bookstore clerk, and assistant at the New York Public Library first.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/1093196.stm (410 words)

	The Hypocrites present Peter Shaffer's EQUUS
		Shaffer was part of an established progressive movement — his final conclusion that violence can be a component of desirable passion recalls what Anthony Burgess said in the novel "A Clockwork Orange" in the 1960s.
		By now, Shaffer’s psychological tale of a boy who has inexplicably blinded a stable full of horses and the psychiatrist who unearths the disturbing rationale behind this atrocity is fairly well known, in part because of a 1977 film version starring Richard Burton and Peter Firth, and because of its sensational subject matter.
		Peter Shaffer’s Tony Awarding winning play (Best Play for 1975), Equus was inspired by a BBC report of a British boy who inexplicably blinded twenty-six horses in a stable.
	www.the-hypocrites.com /2005/Equus/rev.htm (2905 words)

	Peter Levin Shaffer Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Peter Levin Shaffer (born 1926) became one of England's most popular and respected playwrights; his work was equally successful 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 to 1947; that is, during the last year of World War II and the immediate postwar period.
		Taken as a whole, Shaffer's work, as he recognized, was concerned with the dichotomy laid down by Friedrich Nietzsche between the Apollonian (the intellectual, the rational) and the Dionysiac (the emotional, the irrational), with the playwright often coming down on the side of the latter.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/peter-levin-shaffer (1216 words)

	Slashdoc - peter shaffer
		Peter Levin and his twin brother Anthony were born to Jake Reka and Fredman Shaffer in Liverpool, England on May 15, 1926.
		Shaffer found coal mining an arduous occupation that he states, gave him a great sympathy for the way many people are forced to spend their lives (www.iub.edu).
		Shaffer states for years he labored under the impression that the passion he had developed for the theatre could only be used as a pastime and that his daily profession had to be something “respectable” (www.iub.edu).
	www.slashdoc.com /documents/84511 (704 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Equus \| Peter Shaffer
		Peter Shaffer is known for the quality of his plays and the variety of their subject matter.
		Shaffer was born in Liverpool, England, in 1926.
		Shaffer was educated at Cambridge, and his early career included stints as a coal miner, an assistant at the New York Public Library, and an editor for a firm of music publishers.
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/equus.html (1627 words)

	Player Bio: Peter Shaffer :: Ski
		Shaffer will enter his first-year at the collegiate level after coaching in the intermountain divisions for the last four years.
		Shaffer is a former member of the Utah ski team and tallied three top-20 finishes in 1999-00, while helping to lead Utah to two fourth-place finishes at the NCAA Skiing Championships.
		Shaffer graduated with a bachelor's degree in exercise and sports science and behavioral science and health, while also received a minor degree in psychology.
	utahutes.cstv.com /sports/c-ski/mtt/shaffer_peter00.html (158 words)

	Peter Shaffer
		Peter Shaffer and his twin brother Anthony were born on May 15, 1926, in Liverpool, England, where Shaffer later attended prep school.
		Shaffer found coal mining an arduous occupation which, he states, gave him great sympathy for the way many people are forced to spend their lives.
		Shaffer's most recent stage play was The Gift of the Gorgon, produced in London in 1992, the same year in which he won the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre.
	www.indiana.edu /~thtr/2000/equus/Shaffer.html (622 words)

	Peter Shaffer
		Peter Shaffer (born May 15, 1926) is a British dramatist, author of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been filmed.
		He was born in Liverpool, and is the twin brother of another playwright, Anthony Shaffer.
		It was made into a 1984 film, which won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Peter_Shaffer.html (191 words)

	Playbill News: Amadeus Author Peter Shaffer at Work on Tchaikovsky Play
		Peter Shaffer, the Tony Award-winning playwright of Amadeus and Equus, is working on a new play about the life and death of Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the playwright's agent confirmed.
		Shaffer's latest work concerns the "circumstances surrounding the composer's mysterious death in 1893," according to the New York Post, which first broke the news.
		Peter Shaffer is the author of White Liars & Black Comedy, Equus, Amadeus, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Five Finger Exercise, Lettice and Lovage and The Private Ear and The Public Eye.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/99990.html (436 words)

	PETER SHAFFER, 1926 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Woman in the Wardrobe, by Peter and Anthony Shaffer as Peter Anthony.
		by Peter and Anthony Schaffer as Peter Anthony.
		Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, with a new introduction to the film by Shaffer, New York: New American Library, 1984.
	www.cas.sc.edu /engl/LitCheck/shafferp.htm (216 words)

	AllRefer.com - Peter Shaffer (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Peter Shaffer, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
		Peter Shaffer[shaf´ur] Pronunciation Key, 1926–;, English playwright, b.
		Equus (1973) is a dialogue between a psychoanalyst and a deranged, horse-obsessed youth; the Tony-winning Amadeus (1979) relates the rivalry between the composers Mozart and Salieri.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Shaffer.html (313 words)

	Inge Festival - Retrospective - Peter Shaffer
		Shaffer was born May 15, 1926 in Liverpool, England and was educated at St. Paul's School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
		Shaffer's drama about the fall of the Inca Empire, opened on Broadway and the following year saw his farce set entirely in the dark, Black Comedy, which played on a double bill with another one-act, White Lies.
		Shaffer’s plays and films, tributes from friends both live and taped, and special appearances by Broadway actors.
	www.ingefestival.org /ingefestival/retro/Peter_Shaffer.htm (2592 words)

	Peter Shaffer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SHAFFER, (Levin) Peter - SHAFFER, (Levin) Peter SHAFFER, (Levin) Peter (1926-), British playwright, known both for his farces and psychological dramas.
		Peter Shaffer was born in Liverpool, England, on May 15, 1962, along with his twin brother, Anthony, who would also become a writer.
		Shaffer studied history on a scholarship from Cambridge University, and worked a number of odd jobs including coal miner, bookstore clerk, and assistant at the New York Public Library, before discovering his dramatic talents.
	www.drama21c.net /writers/shaeffer/shaffer.htm (454 words)

	Amazon.ca: Peter Shaffer's Amadeus: Books: Peter Shaffer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Through his carefully meditated blend of moving original music and innovative stage manipulation, Shaffer is able to execute his own 'take' on the myth that is the life, love and losses of the infamous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
		Shaffer's elaboration of the myth surrounding the life, loves and losses of the infamous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, takes modern drama to new, unchartered heights.
		His theme being the nature of genius, is explored and exhausted through an innovative blend of musical and visual manipulation, which effectively seduces the reader, leading us to believe that we are privy to the internal wars which rage through the protagonists mind.
	www.amazon.ca /Peter-Shaffers-Amadeus-Shaffer/dp/0060140321 (736 words)

	Peter Shaffer - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Peter Shaffer - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Shaffer, Peter, born in 1926, British playwright, best known for psychological plays that often focus on relationships between people of seemingly...
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	Anthony Shaffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anthony Joshua Shaffer, (May 15, 1926 – November 6, 2001), was an English playwright, novelist, and screenwriter.
		He was born in Liverpool and was the twin brother of the better-known Peter Shaffer.
		Shaffer's most notable work is the play Sleuth (1970), which he adapted for the film version of the same name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Shaffer (234 words)

	Peter Shaffer Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shaffer was a writer, critic, and novelist (with his brother Anthony Shaffer under the pseudonym Peter Anthony) before turning to the theatre with "Five Finger Exercise" in 1958.
		Shaffer's comedy "Lettice and Lovage" (1987) featured a tour-de-force performance by Maggie Smith in London and on Broadway (and by Julie Harris in the US touring company).
		Shaffer's villains sympathize with and understand the more likable foe, yet do what they need to do for their own ends, but not without shame or worse.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/190953 (653 words)

	Amazon.com: Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer: Books: Peter Shaffer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shaffer has an uncanny knack for dialogue and this is his second best play next to Equus.
		Deftly, Shaffer tosses his Amadeus and Saliere together and in so doing plays each against their type rendering his Amadeus into the simple squeezebox which provides the background for the languid single note of Saliere's mournful jealousy.
		And yet, there is one last twist to Shaffer's story, for it is after all God Salieri is challenging here, not merely the flesh and blood Mozart, and in the closing seconds of the final act, it is God who plays the final hand to very crafty effect.
	www.amazon.com /Amadeus-Play-Peter-Shaffer/dp/0060935499 (1772 words)

	Essays.cc - “Amadeus” By Peter Shaffer
		Shaffer probably decided to write this play because of this rumor of a murder between two great composers.
		Mozart is portrayed as a “spiteful, sniggering, conceited, infantine” man. However, Shaffer himself tells that this portrait of Mozart was indeed excessive: “The theatrical portrait of Mozart in “Amadeus”; is clearly excessive and one-sided, at least in the expositional first act.
		Shaffer, although being a Mozart scholar, used some fictional elements to write his story about the relation between the two composers.
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/g6/ykd19.shtml (1286 words)

	Amadeus - Peter Shaffer
		Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus is a tremendously powerful meditation on the nature of artistic inspiration that cruelly inducts its own audience into the ranks of "mediocrities" -- those capable of appreciating genius without actually having it.
		Milos Forman’s film will be the most familiar text, a version which expanded greatly upon the original, particularly in enhancing the role played by the music itself.
		In 2003, Shaffer pronounced the play"'complete" and published what is known as "version 6." This is the version chosen by Ouroboros for their inaugural production.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/Amadeus.htm (724 words)

	Peter Shaffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964) presents the tragic conquest of Peru by the Spanish, while Black Comedy (1965) takes a hilarious look at the antics of a group of characters feeling their way around a pitch fl room -- although the stage is, of course, actually flooded with light.
		An electrifying journey into the mind of a 17-year-old stableboy who had plunged a spike into the eyes of six horses, Equus ran for over 1000 performances on Broadway.
		Several of Shaffer's plays have been adapted to film, including Five Finger Exercise (1962), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969), Equus (1977), and Amadeus (1984), which won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Shaffer (562 words)

	PETER SHAFFER'S AMADEUS: DIRECTOR'S CUT - TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION DVD
		Bringing the highbrow to the status-hungry middle in the same way as those "Bach's Greatest Hits" collections and the awful faux-llies of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Milos Forman's bawdy, jittery adaptation of Peter Shaffer's fanciful play "Amadeus" is not so much about Mozart as it is about genius and its burden on the mediocre.
		As good as Warner's DVD of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus: Director's Cut is, it's a wasted opportunity that the two-disc set doesn't utilize seamless branching technology to make simultaneously available the original theatrical version, which is already on DVD but in a decidedly inferior presentation interrupted by a side-break.
		Both renditions of Amadeus have their strengths, and it would be a shame for the one that received the Oscar for Best Picture to disappear into the ether.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/amadeusdc.htm (638 words)

	Berkshire Theatre Festival's production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, review on newberkshire.com, the ...
		It is hard to untangle the many strands of genius that flood the stage during the seemingly short three hours that Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus takes to unfold, gloriously, as the opening play of the Berkshire Theatre Festival's 2006 season.
		He is on the mark in his casting of the two antagonists, the diabolical but strangely appealing Salieri (Jonathan Epstein) and the leaping, mercurial Mozart (Randy Harrison).
		Shaffer has written truly great roles for his two leads and in this production they are played greatly.
	www.newberkshire.com /berkshire_theatre_festival/amadeus.php (1010 words)

	Peter Shaffer Biography
		Peter Shaffer and his twin brother, Anthony, were born in Liverpool, England, on May 15, 1926, to Jack (a real estate agent) and Reka (Fredman) Shaffer.
		When Shaffer was ten, the family moved to London, where Shaffer attended St. Paul's School.
		Peter Shaffer's Continued Quest for God in Amadeus
	www.enotes.com /amadeus/9721 (150 words)

	Equus - Peter Shaffer - Review - A glimpse into hell
		This volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories intended for use at A Level.
		I've read it, seen it on the stage, studied it in depth and it has haunted me for years.
		The Plot is based loosely on something that actually happened - a paragraph in a newspaper inspired Shaffer to write this, a thing it is worth bearing in mind when approaching the text - there is a grain of truth in it.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/equus-peter-shaffer/322294 (807 words)

	Term Papers on Peter Shaffer - Term Papers Lab
		From 1944 to 1947, Peter worked in the Chrislet coalmine, having been enlisted as one of the "Bevin Boys, essential workers in service to the country, organized by Ernest Bevin, Churchill's Minister...
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