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Amadeus dramatic vs historical truth
Title: Amadeus dramatic vs historical truth
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1298 | Pages: 5.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Amadeus dramatic vs historical truth
The play “Amadeus” by Peter Shaffer was not written in order to be a biography of the great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, much more than this, Peter Shaffer wrote it as a story, rather than a history. In his story he was free to insert fiction to make the play more interesting to a wide audience, as well as to fulfill his purposes. However, musicologists and historians have written several articles claiming that Peter Shaffer “…showed first 75 words of 1298 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1298 total…being jealous. It was intentional to make Mozart as a silly person so that Salieri’s rage would have a motif.
With these discussed elements of the play, it seems noticeable that a playwright or any writer is free to use any ornament needed to convey what he wants to transmit to the readers. Shaffer, although being a Mozart scholar, used some fictional elements to write his story about the relation between the two composers.
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