Principal Works
PLAYS
Five Finger Exercise 1958
"The Private Ear" 1962
"The Public Eye" 1962
The Merry Roosters Panto [with Stanley Myers and Steven Vinaver] 1963; revised as It's About Cinderella 1969
The Royal Hunt of the Sun: A Play Concerning the Conquest of Peru 1964
"Black Comedy" 1965
A Warning Game 1967
"White Lies" 1967; revised as "The White Liars," 1968; revised again as "White Liars," 1976
The Battle of Shrivings 1970; revised as Shrivings, 1974
Equus 1973
Amadeus 1979
Black Mischief 1983
Yonadab: The Watcher 1985
Lettice and Lovage 1987; revised as Lettice & Lovage, 1990
Gift of the Gorgon 1992
RADIO PLAYS
Alexander the Corrector 1946
The Prodigal Father 1957
Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing? 1989
TELEVISION PLAYS
The Salt Land 1955
Balance of Terror 1957
SCREENPLAYS
Lord of the Flies [with Peter Brook] 1963
The Pad (And How to Use It) [adaptation of "The Private Ear"] 1966
The Public Eye (Follow Me!) 1972
Equus 1977
Amadeus 1984
OTHER MAJOR WORKS
Woman in the Wardrobe [with brother Anthony Shaffer under the joint pseudonym Peter Antony] (novel) 1951
How Doth the Little Crocodile? [with Anthony Shaffer as Peter Antony] (novel) 1952
Withered Murder [with Anthony Shaffer] (novel) 1955
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