The playwright was a commercial success, but his works could only have been created in subsidised venuesPeter Shaffer obituaryFew writers achieve the lucrative double of writing an international hit play that becomes a big-budget movie. Remarkably, though, Peter Shaffer achieved the feat in three successive decades: with The Royal Hunt of the Sun in the 1960s, Equus in the 70s and Amadeus in the 80s. Amadeus became o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PM on June 6, 2016