The Admirer and His Demons: Milos Forman’s Adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus
“Art and literature are my surrogate religions.” In a Gerhard Richter moment, Sir Peter Shaffer offered this statement to the Guardian’s Michael Billington in 2006, effectively placing himself among the playwrights who wear or have worn their creative codes like cassocks. The striking mark of Equus—the skirt of his particular code, represented by the above… Continue reading The Admirer and His Demons: Milos Forman’s Adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus
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Hey! My name is Louis, and I am thrilled to host you here. My writings appear on Meet Me at the Opera, onlinebookclub.org (where I review books and have published poetry under the username, Nathrad Sheare), and my second blog, everyonesopera.com. I’ve been an Internet writer since pictographs first became eligible for Oxford “Word of the Year” and hope to become a permanent voice in the Web’s head. If you have heard of Lionel Trilling and between a Cynthia Ozick collection and a David Sedaris would choose the Ozick, you’re already my best friend.
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