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Shaffer, Peter. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/sh/Shaffer.html

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English playwright, b. Liverpool, grad. Cambridge, 1950. Before turning to the stage he wrote for radio and television and was the author of several mystery novels. He has written both historical and contemporary dramas, work ranging from the tautly dramatic to the farcically comic.

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A Struggle of Resistance against Restriction - English
URL: http://yu.ac.kr/~yno1/html/248/248_20.html

What makes 'Equus' a powerful play? What makes 'Equus' a famous play? Is it an interesting play? Or is it just the nakedness of the actors' bodies?

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The Anger in Equus - English
URL: http://www.drama21c.net/newadds/anger.htm

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Barry B. Witham. Peter Shaffer’s Equus is neither great theatre nor bad psychology, but it has elements of both. It is an exhilarating play: a remarkable blend of delayed exposition and theatrical effect, of melodrama and circus, which has inspired huge ticket sales and adoring critical reviews. And it is that increasingly rare serious drama which capitalizes on lurid events while maintaining a devotion to “ideas.”

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Amadeus -- Introduction - English
URL: http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/user/makuro/teksty/amadeus/1.html

Peter Shaffer's psychological drama Amadeus has aroused controversy ever since its first performance on 2 November 1979 at the National Theatre in London. It has met with enthusiastic reception worldwide and has been translated into twenty-two languages (Plunka, 173). The film version, released in September 1984, has made the drama accessible to a mass audience and thus revived the stormy debate regarding the accurate portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the events that led to his death. Simultaneously, the film started a kind of "Mozart-mania".

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Evaluation of Alan Strang - English
URL: http://www.selfpsychology.org/neutrality/evaluation.htm

A psychoanalytic interpretation of Peter Shaffer’s Equus By Stephanie A. Stolorow November 1, 1997

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Equus | Peter Shaffer - English
URL: http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/equus.html

After premiering in 1973 in London, Peter Shaffer's Equus ran for more than a thousand performances on Broadway and won the 1974 Tony Award, as well as three other major drama awards. The play focuses on the causes underlying a seemingly senseless act of violence by an adolescent boy, an act that forces the characters to confront questions of responsibility and ultimate meaning.

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Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus on stage in London's West End Old Vic Theatre - English
URL: http://www.albemarle-london.com/amadeus.html

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BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Shaffer: Acclaimed Amadeus playwright - English
URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1093196.stm

Playwright Peter Shaffer, the Oscar-winning author of Oscar-winning Amadeus, is to become a knight.

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Peter Shaffer (1926- ) - English
URL: http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc69.html

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Biography of British dramatist Peter Shaffer, plus links to all of his works currently in print.

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