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SHAFFER’S AMADEUS: A DRAMATIC RE-WRITING OF HISTORY
SHAFFER’S AMADEUS: A DRAMATIC RE-WRITING OF HISTORY

Author(s): Sabbar S. Sultan
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: art; creativity; rivalry; evil; human nature

Summary/Abstract: The present paper is an attempt to explore the drama of the contemporary English dramatist Peter Shaffer (b. 1926) with a particular reference to his Amadeus (1981) and his historicist reading of the historical rivalry between the two composers (Mozart and Salieri) and its vast artistic and thematic implications

  • Issue Year: 6/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 586-602
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English
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