Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer Peter Shaffer
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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. Peter Shaffer's well-known dramatization of jealousy and how it utterly consumes the sufferer. Milos Forman's Oscar-sweeping imagining of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life, music, and death is a lush, energetic, witty, and historically dishonest movie. It is worth noting, however, that due to a mix of Artistic License and Rule of Drama Amadeus is hardly an accurate portrayal of the composer's life. In the summer of 2011 I had the privilege of seeing a professional production of Peter Schaffer's Amadeus. Amadeus is a 1979 stage play written by Peter Shaffer, adapted into a film in 1984. " Peter Shaffer's infalliable instinct for what makes riveting theater is again demonstrated in his awesomely talented new play Amadeus .". (London: Penguin, reprinted 2007, revised edition originally published 1985). But don't hold those against it, Oscar skeptics: Amadeus is a witty and highly imaginative historical fiction, well adapted by screenwriter Peter Shaffer from his own hit play. Despite the play's critical accolades and bountiful ticket sales, playwright Peter Shaffer was not satisfied. He established a career in the US with classics like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, er … Valmont But pretty much everything else is an invention on the part of the original play by Peter Shaffer. Amadeus made its London debut in 1979. Amadeus is a big sumptuous version of Peter Shaffer's hit play about the deadly competition between two composers in Vienna in the late 1700s. The performance Ever since I saw that play I knew that had to be my monologue for my IGCSEs. Mozart's last days were fictionalised in the Peter Shaffer play and 1984 film Amadeus. Putting the "right" in playwright, Peter Shaffer after his recent revival on the London and Broadway stage has delivered a revised version of his already acclaimed play Amadeus. From the author of Outside Edge and Stepping Out comes this bitter-sweet, witty.