Peter Schaffer was an English playwright and screenwriter, best known for Tony Award-winning works Equus (Plymouth/Helen Hayes Theatres) and Amadeus, which also received a Drama Award for Outstanding New Play (Broadhurst Theatre). Other Broadway works include Lettice and Lovage and Black Comedy/White Lies (Ethel Barrymore Theatre), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (ANTA Playhouse), The Private Ear and The Public Eye (Morosco Theatre), and Finger Five Exercise (Music Box Theatre). Shaffer himself adapted a number of his plays into screenplaysincluding Amadeus, for which he
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Ambition and jealousy - all set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his rival, the dissolute but supremely talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. How far will Salieri go to achieve the fame that Mozart disregards? The 1981 Tony Award ... SEE MORE