Peter Shaffer
Born 15 May 1926 · Died 6 June 2016
From Liverpool, England, United Kingdom · Nationality: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Writes fiction
Quotes
“Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.”
p. 8 “Tragedy obviously does not lie in a conflict of Right and Wrong, but in a collision between two different kinds of Right...”
p. 11 “If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
In The New York Times, April 13, 1975. “That’s the main trouble with the two nations: bad Brits are snobs, bad Americans are slobs.”
Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing? 1990
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Books by Peter Shaffer in order
Books by Peter Shaffer in the order they were published, from Five Finger Exercise (1958) to The Woman in the Wardrobe (2020).
- 1Five Finger Exercise
Five Finger Exercise1958 - 2The Private Ear
The Private Ear1962 - 3The Public Eye
The Public Eye1962 - 4The Royal Hunt of the Sun
The Royal Hunt of the Sun1964 - 5Black Comedy, Including White Lies
Black Comedy, Including White Lies1967 - 6The White Liars
The White Liars1967 - 7Black Comedy
Black Comedy1968 - 8Black Comedy and White LiesBlack Comedy and White Lies1968
- 9Equus
Equus1973 - 10Shrivings
Shrivings1974 - 11Three Plays
Three Plays1976 - 12Amadeus
Amadeus1980 - 13Four PlaysFour Plays1981
- 14The Collected Plays of Peter Shaffer
The Collected Plays of Peter Shaffer1982 - 15Lettice and Lovage
Lettice and Lovage1988 - 16Lettice and Lovage and Yonadab
Lettice and Lovage and Yonadab1989 - 17Lettice & Lovage
Lettice & Lovage1990 - 18Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing?
Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing?1990 - 19The Gift of the Gorgon
The Gift of the Gorgon1993 - 20The Woman in the Wardrobe
The Woman in the Wardrobe2020