Shaffer, Peter Levin
Shaffer, Peter Levin ( 1926 – ),playwright, born in Liverpool, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His first play, Five Finger Exercise ( 1958 ), a drama of middle-class family life, was followed by many other successes, including The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( 1964 , pub. 1965 ), an epic about the conquest of Peru; Black Comedy ( 1965 , pub. 1967 ), a cleverly constructed farce set in a London apartment which reverses dark and light, so that the cast, in full glare of the lights and view of the audience, stumbles around during the pitch darkness of a dramatic electricity failure; Equus ( 1973 ), a drama about an analyst's relationship with his horse-obsessed patient; Amadeus ( 1979 , pub. 1980 ), which deals with the nature of creativity through a portrayal of the composers Mozart and Salieri ; Lettice and Lovage ( 1987 ); and The Gift of the Gorgon ( 1992...
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