Peter Shaffer

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Coming in at number 22, let's examine Peter Shaffer's script for Amadeus.

Such an incredible piece of writing.

Where Kane uses a purely investigative framing device, Amadeus uses an incredibly emotionally resonant one.

Real life just has way too much downtime and like way too many unresolved subplots.

Precisely.

And Peter Shaffer wasn't interested in writing a textbook about 18th century Austrian musical commissions.

Thank goodness.

Now, he didn't originate this role.

Equus, of course, is the play by Peter Shaffer.

It was a big hit.

Um, I wanna say it was Anthony Hopkins, then Anthony Perkins, and I think he took over for Anthony Perkins.

And but Pushkin said, "Oh, what if, what if they were enemies? Like, what if Salieri hated Mozart?" Totally f- made up.

And then, um, Peter Shaffer was a guy who made up a play that was a huge hit in the early '80s about Salieri being so jealous of Mozart's talent, and that was with Tim Curry and Ian McKellen on Broadway-

Okay

... and Jane Seymour, I think.