Peter Shaffer

thumb|Peter Shaffer in 1966 Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBE (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his plays The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus and Amadeus (he adapted the last two for their screen versions). Do not confuse with Pierre Schaeffer. Quotes The men climb the Andes. The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Act I, sc. viii. (1964). Sometimes misquoted as "They cross the Andes". Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process. Equus (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1973] 1984), p. 8. Tragedy obviously does not lie in a conflict of Right and Wrong, but in a collision between two different kinds of Right... Equus (Longman, [1973] 1993), p. 11 Conferː "Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right." Interviewed by Mike Wood for the William Inge Center for the Arts. If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. In The New York Times, April 13, 1975. That's the main trouble with the two nations: bad Brits are snobs, bad Americans are slobs. Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing? (1990) External links Peter Shaffer at IMDb. Category:1926 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Playwrights from England Category:Screenwriters from England Category:Jews from the United Kingdom Category:LGBT people Category:People from Liverpool Category:Tony Award winners Category:University of Oxford faculty Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Category:Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners