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Amadeus by Peter Shaffer5/22/2023 ![]() Amadeus won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play. After being presented successfully at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1979, the play moved to the West End followed by Broadway. First performed in 1979, Amadeus was inspired by a short 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin called Mozart and Salieri (which was also used as the libretto for an opera of the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1897). Front cover photograph by Nobby Clark.Īmadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer, which gives a highly fictionalized account of the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. Forman directed the classic Academy Award-winning film bearing the same name. ![]() Lengthily signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “What use, after all is Man, if not to teach God His lessons?” Peter Shaffer.” Also inscribed by Milos Forman on the half-title page. First edition of the playwright’s classic work. ![]()
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