Amadeus

The play, which opens with the aged Salieri, who has been a successful composer in the Hapsburg court under Emperor Joseph II, addresses the audience in a confession of his having killed the...

I think that the most obvious similarity is that they both love music. Mozart and Salieri were able to appreciate and love music at a leve that was uniquely different from others and from their...

I think that you can make a very strong case that Salieri is the central figure of the film. Initially, it should be noted that Salieri's voice is what guides us throughout the film. He is the...

In Amadeus, Salieri presents himself as a conventionally well-behaved man who wanted to excel as a musician. This was his attitude toward his own creativity, his successful musical career, and his...

Amadeus is a fictional drama written by English playwright and screenwriter Peter Shaffer, originally published in 1979. Set in Vienna, Austria, it tells the story of the interesting relationship...

English playwright Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus is a tale of the life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Later remade into a feature film, it focuses on an embellished and fictionalized...

The premise of Amadeus is that genius, and by extension all talent, is God-given and does not correspond to socially approved behavior. Throughout the play, Salieri begrudges Amadeus his genius and...

There are a couple of issues present in the question. The first would be Salieri’s bargain with God. This is facilitated on the idea that Salieri knew as a young boy how committed he was to the...

Peter Schaffer goes out of his way to create a creepy, uneasy, Gothic mood in the opening scene of his play that startles the viewer (or reader of the script). Salieri sits in darkness and cries...

Amadeus takes place in Vienna during the 1780s and 1790s, dealing as it does with the rivalry between Mozart and Antonio Salieri, another composer who was active at the Habsburg court during this...

If you mean what actor played the main role, it was F. Murray Abraham. The giggly Mozart was played by Tom Hulce. The film describes the rivalry between Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,...

I think that Shaffer accomplishes his end goal in bringing out a complexity and depth to both principals in the work. The audience is left to muddle through the newly established intricacy of both...

I suppose that both played a role in their respective falls from grace. Salieri allowed his own sense of jealously and envy to reach unmanageable proportions. In his own search to appropriate the...

In Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, Constanze Weber is Mozart's girlfriend and later wife. We see her through Salieri's bitter and subjective eyes, so we don't necessarily get an accurate portrait of her,...

When a character speaks a soliloquy in a play, the character is alone (or believes that they're alone). Being alone, the character has no reason to lie to anyone. Whoever is speaking invariably...

http://www.enotes.com/amadeus I don't know what is wrong, but my entire post is not going up. At any rate, there is definite evidence of internal conflict in Solieri. Since your post is more...

I think that Schaffer's work can be about many elements. Consumption could certainly be a part of this. Mozart is consumed with his music. The fact that he is depicted as pursuing this ideal of...

Two instances of remorse and forgiveness are Mozart’s reaction to his father’s death and his reaction to learning of Salieri’s help. During the course of act 2, Salieri continues his campaign to...

Salieri does endure a challenging lot, but it truly is not a justification for his envy. That being said, Salieri's fundamental challenge is that he loves music and loves the creation of it. Yet,...

The original question had to be edited. In some ways, Schaffer's work might be able to be seen as representative of Artaud's theories on the theatre of the cruel. Artaud's theories on this...

Toward the end of his life, Mozart suffered from pain, swelling, fevers, and vomiting. All of these were symptoms of rheumatic fever. This disease is often brought on after a severe bacterial...

I think that this is a critical issue in the play. On one hand, I do think that the play makes the argument that inner desires are extremely important to both the creative process as well as to...