AMADEUS by Peter Shaffer
The death of God, the need for God, the rage against God if he does exist have obsessed Britain's Peter Shaffer for more than a decade. He has written three psychodramas that are, in a way that no author of an adulterous farce could imagine, plays about the eternal triangle. Two men are pitted against each other under the baleful or indifferent eye of a God who is present but never made manifest.
This phase of Shaffer's career began with The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964). In that play, Atahuallpa,...