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Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer Peter Shaffer
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

JL: Written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, Amadeus is a highly fictionalized play based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. I really admire the way he doesn't get so attached to his early drafts that he is able to cut out entire chunks and re-write and re-write and re-write. Freuds Theories Applied to Peter Shaffers Amadeus 1. Also in 2001, he was Ebenezer Scrooge in the seasonal “A Christmas Carol” at NYC's Madison Square Garden. Be Yourself - A short play about fitting in and pe. The legend of his murder at the hands of fellow composer and rival, Antonio Salieri, inspired an opera — Mozart and Salieri, by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov — and a play-turned-major-motion-picture, Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer. If revisions weren't intimidating enough, Peter Shaffer certainly raises the bar. Set amidst the opulence and splendour of 18th Century Vienna, this brilliantly written stage play by English dramatist Peter Shaffer features Mozart's music to glorious effect. Perhaps the most important thing to know about Peter Shaffer's film adaptation of his own stage-play “Amadeus” is that it's a work of fiction, not a biography. Freud's Theories Applied to Peter Shaffer's Amadeus. Preface People inhabit to balance in the . He established a career in the US with classics like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, er … Valmont But pretty much everything else is an invention on the part of the original play by Peter Shaffer. Amadeus is a is a stage play written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. So, also, did English playwright Peter Shaffer when he latched onto the historical rumor that Antonio Salieri had vindictively poisoned Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as the premise upon which to build the play "Amadeus. Before it became the Oscar-winning film, Amadeus was a Tony-winning play. Mush of his work has inspired others – musical versions such as Tchaikovsky's opera which caused me so much trouble and his verse play Mozart and Salieri was the inspiration for Peter Schaffer's Amadeus. Milos Forman's Oscar-sweeping imagining of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life, music, and death is a lush, energetic, witty, and historically dishonest movie. And in 1980, he was Broadway's first Mozart in Peter Shaffer's “Amadeus”.