Playwright best known for The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus and AmadeusAlthough the playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, who has died aged 90, wrote one of the best farces of postwar British theatre in Black Comedy (1965), he was best known for his hugely popular philosophical dramas The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964), Equus (1973) and, in particular, Amadeus (1979). The last of these, which charted the destructive jealousy of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PM on June 6, 2016