Royal Hunt of the Sun (Heritage of Literature) - Hardcover

Peter Shaffer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0582348927 ISBN 13: 9780582348929

Publisher: Longman, 1966

Synopsis

This volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author. This play centres on Pizarro, who leads an army of Spanish Conquistadors to Peru, to conquer the golden kingdom of the Incas. The soldiers claim to be "huntsmen of God". But what are they really hunting? And what is the reason for the strange bond that develops between Pizarro and the Inca king?

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0582348927
• ISBN 13: 9780582348929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128