The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece. Peter Shaffer More Quotes by Peter Shaffer More Quotes From Peter Shaffer What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty. Peter Shaffer inkwould-befall Art and literature are my surrogate religions. Peter Shaffer surrogatereligionsliteratureart But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. Peter Shaffer firstownstorymy-own I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. Peter Shaffer studyingstoryorganizationbelieve I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character. Peter Shaffer i-thinkthinkmusiccharacter They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all. Peter Shaffer greatlookmesun We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children. Peter Shaffer greattimewarchildren
