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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
1,444 words, approx. 5 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... summary from source:
 Biography of Peter (Levin) Shaffer
12,179 words, approx. 41 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... summary from source:
Biography of Peter Levin Shaffer
10,670 words, approx. 36 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...
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 Peter Shaffer Quotes
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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...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Shaffer, Sir Peter
169 words, approx. 1 pages(born May 15, 1926, London, Eng.) British playwright of considerable range who moved easily from farce to the portrayal of human anguish. Educated at St. Paul's and Trinity College, Cambridge, Shaffer first worked for a music publisher and then as a... summary from source:
Shaffer, Peter (Levin)
80 words, approx. 1 pages(born May 15, 1926, London, Eng.) British playwright. He first won notice for his comedy Five Finger Exercise (1958) and his epic tragedy The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964). His Equus (1973, Tony Award; film, 1977) was a hit in London and New York City.... summary from source:
 Peter Shaffer Information
931 words, approx. 3 pages
He was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool, and is the twin brother of another playwright, Anthony Shaffer. He gained a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge University to study history. Shaffer was a Bevin Boy coal miner during WW2 and took a...
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 The Modern Language Review Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama.(Review)
01/01/2000: 657 words, approx. 2 pages Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama. By MADELEINE MACMURRAGH-KAVANAGH. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1998. xiii + 208 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Sheridan Morley wrote that Peter Shaffer 'has always been able, even in the heart of the commercial theatre jungle,... summary from source:
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 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 C. J. Gianakaris
6,391 words, approx. 21 pages
In the essay below, Gianakaris traces Shaffer's artistic development throughout his plays, focusing on his "masterful merging of the literalism of realism with the provocative of the abstract pictorial."
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Critical Essay by Joan F. Dean
1,384 words, approx. 5 pages
While The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Equus were hailed for their spectacular dramaturgy, The Battle of Shrivings was seen as a retreat to the comfortable ease of the well-made plot and the domestic setting which worked effectively in Five Finger Exercise (1958) and Black Comedy (1967). Shaffer has since returned to the play, rewriting it as Shrivings (1974). In its present form, Shrivings demonstrates more significant affinities with The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Equus than with his earlier works. These thre... summary from source:
Critical Review by Albert E. Kalson
868 words, approx. 3 pages
In the review below, Kalson contends that the character of Dysart, who "embodies the central conflict which affords the play its universality, " is insufficiently developed, leaving the doctor's dilemma overshadowed by the psychological "case history."
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