Editing Peter Shaffer (section)

==Personal life and death==
Shaffer was [[gay]]. In the 1970s, Shaffer was in a relationship with [[Paul Giovanni]], musician and composer of ''[[The Wicker Man]]''.<ref name=WickerMan>{{cite book |last= Brown|first= Allan|author-link= |date= 1 June 2010|title= Inside The Wicker Man: How Not to Make a Cult Classic|publisher= Birlinn Ltd|page= 46|isbn= 978-1846971440|quote = [Anthony] Shaffer, meanwhile, had been impressed by the work of an American composer, Paul Giovanni, whose experimental folk-rock score for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night he had heard at a performance in Washington DC. More crucially perhaps, the composer was the boyfriend of Shaffer's brother, Peter.}}</ref> His later partner, New York-based voice teacher Robert Leonard, died in 1990 at the age of 49.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/06/peter-shaffer-elaborate-theatre-he-succeeded-equus-amadeus|title=Peter Shaffer wanted to make elaborate theatre – and he succeeded|first=Mark |last=Lawson |date=6 June 2016 |access-date=31 December 2016|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shenton |first1=Mark |title=Mark Shenton's week: Is gay theatre back on form? |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/2017/mark-shentons-week-is-gay-theatre-back-on-form/ |date=3 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403121412/https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/2017/mark-shentons-week-is-gay-theatre-back-on-form/ |archive-date=3 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Robert Leonard; Voice Teacher, 49 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/17/obituaries/robert-leonard-voice-teacher-49.html |access-date=18 July 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=17 October 1990}}</ref> Peter Shaffer's final relationship was with the drama and music teacher Kevin Shancady.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Humm |first=Andy |date=April 13, 2017 |title=Gay City News |url=https://gaycitynews.com/peter-shaffers-coming-out-celebration/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Breen |first=Frank |date=April 4, 2012 |title=Patch News |url=https://patch.com/massachusetts/concord/cms-cast-party |website=patch.com}}</ref> Shaffer was given a Memorial Tribute on Broadway in 2017. He lived in Manhattan from the 1970s onward.<ref name = NYTObit />

While on a trip to [[Ireland]] shortly after his 90th birthday, Shaffer died on 6 June 2016 at a [[hospice]] facility in Curraheen, [[County Cork]].<ref name = NYTObit /><ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthdays today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-15.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130515061228/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-15.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 15 May 2013 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |access-date=12 May 2014|date=15 May 2013|quote=Sir Peter Shaffer, playwright, is 87 }}</ref><ref name=death>{{cite web|title=Equus and Amadeus playwright Peter Shaffer dies aged 90 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/06/peter-shaffer-equus-amadeus-playwright-dies-aged-90|first=Maev |last=Kennedy |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=6 June 2016|date=6 June 2016}}</ref> Leonard and Shaffer are buried together in the east side of [[Highgate Cemetery]].