Peter Shaffer

Sir Peter Levin Shaffer (born 1926-05-15) is an English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus and Amadeus.

See also the 1984 film version of Amadeus.

Sourced

• The men climb the Andes.
  • The Royal Heart of the Sun, Act I, sc. viii. (1964).
  • A notoriously challenging stage-direction, sometimes misquoted as "They cross the Andes".

• Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
  • Equus (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1973] 1984) p. 8.

• If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
  • The New York Times, April 13, 1975.

• Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
  • Interviewed by Mike Wood for the William Inge Center for the Arts. [1]

External links

• Peter Shaffer at IMDb.