Editing Peter Shaffer (section)

{{Short description|English playwright and screenwriter (1926–2016)}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} 
| name               = Peter Shaffer
| image              = Peter Shaffer, 1966.jpg
| caption            = Shaffer in 1966
| birth_name         = Peter Levin Shaffer
| birth_date         = {{birth date|df=yes|1926|5|15}}
| birth_place        = [[Liverpool]], England
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=yes|2016|6|6|1926|5|15}}
| death_place        = [[Curraheen, County Cork|Curraheen]], [[County Cork]], Ireland
| resting_place      = [[Highgate Cemetery]]
| alma_mater         = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]
| occupation         = {{hlist|Playwright|screenwriter|novelist}}
| years_active       = 
| partner            = Robert Leonard (died 1990)
| relatives          = [[Anthony Shaffer (writer)|Anthony Shaffer]] (brother)
| signature          = Peter Shaffer's signature.svg
}}

'''Sir Peter Levin Shaffer''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English [[playwright]], screenwriter, and novelist. He is best known for the plays ''[[Equus (play)|Equus]]'' and ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]'', the latter of which [[Amadeus (film)|was adapted for the screen]] by [[Miloš Forman]], with an [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Academy Award–winning screenplay]] by Shaffer.