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Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer by Peter Shaffer

Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer Peter Shaffer ebook
ISBN: 9780060935498
Page: 160
Format: pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

(London: Penguin, reprinted 2007, revised edition originally published 1985). But why on I'm glad to learn more about Salieri whose reputation was surely tarnished by Peter Shaffer's loose approach to the facts. But the shadow of the movie AMADEUS is a long one, and there is hardly a time when I go to speak about my novel that someone does not ask if Wolfgang Amadé Mozart was really just a funny little man in a white wig. I usually prefer reading plays to watching them, but for this play I think being able to watch it on the stage with the actors in costume and in motion, and to hear the dialog and music that is so necessary to the story, would have been more satisfying. It's a visceral, enthralling evening of Amadeus, of course, is the original stage play that eventually became the remarkably popular 1984 Milos Forman film that garnered Academy Award nominations for both F. Peter Shaffer's well-known dramatization of jealousy and how it utterly consumes the sufferer. From its sleekly stunning set to its phenomenally talented cast, Round House Theatre's new production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus is first-class all the way. It makes amazing Amadeus Mozart. The book is in the form of a play narrated by a composer contemporary of Mozart - Antonio Salieri. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce (although only Abraham won). I read Amadeus by Peter Shaffer last night which had also been made into a movie. Well, no; he was a In the film and play we have the skill of a historical novelist or, in this case, a historical playwright.