Amadeus Dramatic Vs Historical
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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 au ....
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.... who behaved badly. With this, Salieri would have reasons to be jealous.
As his first attempt to convey his plot, Salieri is shown as a musical hack as we can see in this extract:
“Bewildered, MOZART does so (halts and listens), becoming aware of SALIERI playing his March of Welcome. It is an extremely banal piece, vaguely – but only vaguely - reminiscent of another march to become very famous later one.”
The truth is that Salieri was recognized as a great composer and that is the r ....
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