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  • 5 Literature Criticisms
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Biographies (4)

1,418 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 Sh... Read more
12,221 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 ... Read more
7,379 words, approx. 25 pages
Peter Shaffer is one of the most consistently popular playwrights of the British mainstream theater, with a stage career dating from 1959. Because his work suggests none of the political commitment of... Read more
10,761 words, approx. 36 pages
Biography EssayWith 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 ... Read more