Peter Shaffer

New to Modern Classics When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike, he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment. Dr Dysart is the man given the task of uncovering what happened the night Strang committed his crime, but in doing so, he will open up his own wounds. Dr Dysart struggles to define sanity and justify...

New to Modern Classics Amadeus by Peter Shaffer presents Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. However, the court of eighteenth-century Vienna fails to recognise his talents—only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buffoon and...