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Equus and Amadeus playwright Peter Shaffer dies aged 90
The Guardian ^
| 6/6/2016
| Maev Kennedy
Posted on 06/06/2016 9:14:18 AM PDT by Borges
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06/06/2016 9:14:18 AM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
I suppose since he is a white Play-write his works will be banned by the liberal New England colleges in their courses?
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posted on
06/06/2016 9:21:36 AM PDT
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Red_Devil 232
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To: Red_Devil 232
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posted on
06/06/2016 9:33:19 AM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
"Equus" didn't hit with me.
Perhaps if I saw it on stage, I might feel differently.
Nah.
To: Borges
It’s unfortunate he misrepresented Antonio Salieri as a villain in “Amadeus.” RIP.
To: Borges
RIP. That’s a pretty good corpus for any playwright.
To: Red_Devil 232
I think in the play Equus the main character has sex or simulated sex with a horse, so it will be a big hit in academia.
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posted on
06/06/2016 9:40:08 AM PDT
by
rey
To: Borges
Equus is the only movie I got up and walked out on.
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posted on
06/06/2016 9:49:52 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: rey
He didn’t have sex with the horse. But things did get weird with a girl in the stables.
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posted on
06/06/2016 9:52:13 AM PDT
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: blueunicorn6
It was a terrible film of a good play.
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posted on
06/06/2016 10:12:25 AM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
Maybe they were just horsing around.
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posted on
06/06/2016 10:15:18 AM PDT
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
Maybe they were just horsing around. I say neigh.
To: Billthedrill
I say neigh. 
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06/06/2016 10:18:24 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: fieldmarshaldj
It’s unfortunate he misrepresented Antonio Salieri as a villain in “Amadeus.”Amadeus is a good play and the film adaptation was great. The trouble is, too many people watched it thinking that it was a history lesson rather than a work of fiction. That's the audience's fault, not the writer or filmmaker's.
In reality, Salieri and Mozart got along fairly well. The person who commissioned the Requiem Mass from Mozart did indeed try to steal the work and take credit for it after Mozart's death, but that man was Count von Walzeg, not Salieri.
To: ek_hornbeck
Saleri went on to teach Beethoven and was saught out by Beethoven for many many years after Beethoven became famous.
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06/06/2016 11:25:58 AM PDT
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MrsEmmaPeel
(a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
To: MrsEmmaPeel
He also taught a very young Franz Liszt.
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posted on
06/06/2016 12:13:26 PM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
Franz Liszt?
Never heard of him...
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posted on
06/06/2016 12:26:27 PM PDT
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Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Borges; rey
Wiht all th ementions of “Equs” I now have the “Mister Ed” theme stuck in my head...
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posted on
06/06/2016 1:05:58 PM PDT
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GreenLanternCorps
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To: Borges
Wilbur! NO!
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06/06/2016 1:09:20 PM PDT
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GreenLanternCorps
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