Peter Shaffer Shaffer received the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre in 1992. Two years later he was appointed Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University. In 1993 he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) by the University of Bath. Shaffer's play, "Five Finger Exercise" won the Evening Standard Drama Award when it premiered in London and then won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play when it moved to New York City. Shaffer's play, "Equus" won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Play and the New York Drama
Stage-to-film adaptation looking at a real location, finally gradually switching back to the Globe Theatre. On some occasions, playwrights re-write their stage dramas for the screen, as Peter Shaffer did for "Amadeus" (1984), and as Peter Morgan did with "Frost/Nixon" (2008). Shaffer's screenplay made much use of camera movements and scenery that could only be suggested on-stage, as did Morgan with "Frost/Nixon". For "Amadeus", Shaffer even added scenes and heavily revised others for his original creation to take advantage of the medium. The scene in which the ill Mozart dictates his "Requiem Mass" to Salieri, while his imagined music is heard on