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Original Title:	Equus : a play
ISBN:	0140260706 (ISBN13: 9780140260700)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	England

Equus

Peter Shaffer

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 18128 Users | 606 Reviews

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Title	:	Equus
Author	:	Peter Shaffer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	October 2nd 1984 by Penguin Books (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Fiction. Classics. Theatre. Academic. School. Psychology

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In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic, Peter Shaffer depicts the story of a deranged youth who blinds six horses with a spike. Through a psychiatrist's analysis of the events, Shaffer creates a chilling portrait of how materialism and convenience have killed our capacity for worship and passion and, consequently, our capacity for pain. Rarely has a playwrite created an atmosphere and situation that so harshly pinpoint the spiritual and mental decay of modern man.

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Shaffer starts the play by offering the readers and audiences alike, a character to dislike - even hate. As the play progresses, the psychologist takes the audience into the minds of the troubled young teen who blinded six horses. Very early on the psychologist makes a note of Alan's reciprocity during his sessions; the unabashed effort being covert or being blatantly verbally abusive to his doctor only showed the extent of devolution of his mind. Alan's mind warps God, horses, religion and its

Third time I've read this. A brilliant play, and one of my personal favourites. I'd pay a lot of money to see this play.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave and since Dysart cant account for this power he is forced to question his whole profession, even his whole existence.Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he first became aware of a crime involving a 17-year-old boy who blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk. He then set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The

Equus is the dramatization of a psychologically damaged young man, Alan, who, for no known reason, blinded six horses with a hoof pick at the stables he worked at. The action takes place after the event in the hospital which the courts have remanded Alan, and while the crime is central to the play, the play revolves around the character of the psychiatrist, Dysart, who is tasked with 'curing' the boy.Those who have a wider background in such things are probably well aware of this play--it won a

I became interested in this play years ago when I heard Daniel Radcliffe was starring in it, but I never got around to reading it. Recently I found it at a charity book sale and snapped it up. I was not disappointed. The antagonist's relationship with his horse and his twisted sexuality lead the reader down a trail of serious personal interpretation.

all of my favorite topics explored in a really uncomfortable way, huge fan

I hardly ever read plays; I know little about drama, and even less about its technicalities. So I wasn't supposed to ever come across this 1973 pièce by P. Shaffer, an author I had never heard about. That cover though... it's gorgeous, isn't it? And the Latin one-word title that kept echoing in my mind. And, yes, the price (1.17 € for the Penguin edition). Well, I wasn't disappointed at all. The subject is loosely based on a true act of violence that took place somewhere in England - a teenage