The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Author(s): Peter Shaffer
In the rich, humid air of sixteenth-century Peru, Atahuallpa, the Sun-God King, meets Pizarro the Conquistador, representative of the Spanish Empire at its most insatiable. While the Inca King is convinced of his own immortality, the Spaniard is cynical and greedy, leading to a collision of power and authority. Soon both men are locked in a struggle for survival; one of them must die and the survivor must face mortality, and the terrible truth of the world he lives in. Moving and atmospheric, "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" is an unforgettable drama of pride, empire and the conquest of bodies and souls.
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Peter Shaffer was born in Liverpool in 1926. Among his plays, The Salt Land (1954), Equus (1973) which won Shaffer the 1975 Tony Award for Best Play as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Amadeus (1979) which won the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award for the London production.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 01 January 2007
- : 01 October 2006
- : books
Special Fields
- : Peter Shaffer
- : Paperback