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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	:	Deluxe 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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Ratings: 3.94 From 18128 Users | 606 Reviews

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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

This hit all the beats for me: psychology, religiosity, philosophy, bizarre (and deeply unsexy) sex stuff, and horses. As a former "horse girl," I can agree that horse girls are a strange breed. Horse boys though? Whoaaaa, Nelly. 🚫

(Very minor spoilers). I love works that try to make you sympathize with the villain, rather than making them out to be barely human monsters, as so many books and movies tend to do. I can't help but think it's mostly laziness on the part of the creators. It's easier to create someone who, as the main character in Peter Shaffer's play, hurts animals in a fit of insanity and leave it at that, letting the audience mindlessly hate him, than it is to create a villain and really dig into his motives,

Shaffer's great play of psychological suspense.A teenage boy, caught between a religious mother and an atheist father, suffers from a unique delusion that causes him to commit a shocking act. The task of discovering why falls to a middle aged psychiatrist who is dealing with his own midlife issues.The answer to the boy's mystery slowly unfolds during probing psychoanalysis and reenactment of key events. Actors portray six horses, who act as a (very) Greek chorus and as objects of the boy's

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

Devastating. Compelling. A must read.

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.