Amadeus

Peter Shaffer

ISBN 10: 0451128931 / ISBN 13: 9780451128935

Published by Signet, 1984

About this Item

[ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: Reprint ] Publisher: Signet Pub Date: 9/4/1984 Binding: paperback Pages: 156 Reprint edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Amadeus
• Publisher: Signet
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451128931
• ISBN 13: 9780451128935
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award. In the United States, the play won the coveted Tony Award and went on to become a critically acclaimed major motion picture winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture.

Now, this extraordinary work about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is available with a new preface by Peter Shaffer and a new introduction by the director of the 1998 Broadway revival, Sir Peter Hall. Amadeus is a must-have for classical music buffs, theatre lovers, and aficionados of historical fiction.

About the Author

Peter Shaffer was born in Liverpool in 1926. Among his plays, The Salt Land (1954), Equus (1973) which won Shaffer the 1975 Tony Award for Best Play as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Amadeus (1979) which won the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award for the London production.