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| Name: |
Peter Levin Shaffer | | Birth Date: |
May 5, 1926 | | Place of Birth: |
Liverpool, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
playwright |
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 Biography of Peter Levin Shaffer
1444 words, approx. 4.8 pages
 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 Engl... summary from source:
 Biography of Peter (Levin) Shaffer
12179 words, approx. 40.6 pages
 [This entry was updated by C. J. Gianakaris (Western Michigan University) from the entry by Warren Sylvester Smith in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 337-356.] With less than a dozen major productions since his emergen... summary from source:
Biography of Peter Levin Shaffer
10670 words, approx. 35.6 pages
With less than a dozen major productions since his emergence on the London scene in 1958, Peter Shaffer can hardly be called one of England's more prolific playwrights. But he may well be one of the most enduring and consistently workmanlike dramatists o...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Equus Information
2,083 words, approx. 7 pages
Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious/sexual fascination with horses.[1] Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime...
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 Natural History Ecce Equus
05/01/2008: 766 words, approx. 3 pages Modern horses, zebras, and asses belong to the genus Equus, the only surviving genus in a once diverse family, the Equidae. Based on fossil records, the genus appears to have originated in North America about 4 million years ago and spread to Eurasia (presumably... summary from source:
Mail on Sunday Equus lacks horsepower
03/04/2007: 850 words, approx. 3 pages Equus Gielgud Theatre, London 2hrs 30mins (including interval) Don't Look Now Sheffield Lyceum 2hrs 15mins (including interval) Whipping It Up New Ambassador's Theatre, London 2hrs 15mins (including interval) That comparisons are odious and that nostalgia is a seductive liar are two rules I... summary from source:
 AP News Critics praise Radcliffe in `Equus'
2/28/2007: 293 words, approx. 1 pagesA play about a stablehand who mutilates horses was never going appeal to all, but "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe's assured performance in Peter Shaffer's "Equus" pleased London critics.Some theater writers expressed reservations about Peter Shaffer's play, first staged in London's West End in 1973,... summary from source:
AP News `Harry Potter' makes racy stage debut
2/27/2007: 435 words, approx. 2 pagesHarry Potter is all grown up. Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the boy wizard in the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's best-sellers, sheds his magician's robes _ and everything else _ for his West End stage debut as a troubled stable boy in Peter Shaffer's "Equus."Even...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Russell Vandenbroucke
2,902 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Vandenbroucke declares that Equus is a modern myth that employs "elements of ritual, religion, and ceremony" to "fathom and capture basic truths of man and nature. "
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Critical Essay by Neil Timm
2,752 words, approx. 9 pages
In the essay below, Timm compares Equus to the classical Greek dramas Oedipus and Antigone and to Racine's Phèdre in an attempt to define a modern version of tragedy.
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Critical Review by Walter Kerr
1,563 words, approx. 5 pages
In this review, Kerr praises nearly every aspect of the National Theatre production of Equus. This work, he states, is the "closest I have seen a contemporary play come … to reanimating the spirit of mystery that makes the stage a place of breathless discovery. "
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