Amadeus by Peter Shaffer - ISBN: 9780141188898
Paperback
Envy, genius, and rivalry ignite in Vienna’s cutthroat court.

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  • Paperback

    112 pages

  • Release Date

    8 January 2007

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Summary

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn’t recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buffoon and suddenly aware of his own mediocrity, Salieri declares war and sets out to destroy the man he sees as God’s instrument on earth.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141188898
ISBN-10:0141188898
Author:Peter Shaffer
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:8 January 2007
Weight:94g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 10mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
About The Author

Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer was born in Liverpool in 1926. Among his plays are The Salt Land (1954), Equus (1973) which won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Play as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and Amadeus (1979) which won the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award for the London production.

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