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Peter Shaffer


Born
in Liverpool, England, The United Kingdom
May 15, 1926

Died
June 06, 2016

Genre
Drama, Literature & Fiction


Sir Peter Levin Shaffer was an English dramatist, author of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been filmed.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 43,512 ratings · 1,621 reviews · 70 distinct works • Similar authors
Equus
3.92 avg rating — 22,598 ratings — published 1973 — 83 editions
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Amadeus
4.15 avg rating — 18,891 ratings — published 1979
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun
3.83 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 1964 — 48 editions
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Black Comedy
3.91 avg rating — 482 ratings — published 1965 — 6 editions
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Lettice and Lovage: A Comedy
3.86 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 1987 — 17 editions
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Five Finger Exercise
3.59 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1959 — 11 editions
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The White Liars, and Black ...
3.66 avg rating — 80 ratings — 7 editions
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The gift of the Gorgon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions
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The Private Ear - A Play
3.28 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1962 — 5 editions
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The Collected Plays of Pete...
4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions
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“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise
tags: life, life-lessons
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“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
― Peter Shaffer
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“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.”
― Peter Shaffer, Equus
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