SOURCE: "The Artistic Trajectory of Peter Shaffer," in Peter Shaffer: A Casebook, edited by C. J. Gianakaris, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991, pp. 3-23.
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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