Peter Shaffer
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Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBE (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English playwright and screenwriter of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been turned into films.
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Selected works
- The Salt Land (1954)
- Balance of Terror (1957)
- The Prodigal Father (1957)
- Five Finger Exercise (1958)
- The Private Ear and The Public Eye (1962)
- The Establishment (1963)
- The Merry Roosters Panto (1963)
- The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964), a theatre piece on Atahualpa, the last emperor of the Tahuantinsuyu.
- Black Comedy (1965)
- The White Liars (1967)
- Shrivings (1970)
- Equus (1973)
- Amadeus (1979)
- Black Mischief (1983)
- Yonadab (1985)
- Lettice and Lovage (1987)
- Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing? (1990)
- The Gift of the Gorgon (1992)
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