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Equus
Peter Shaffer
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Paperback. When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment. Dr Dysart is the man given the task of uncovering what happened the night Strang committed his crime, but in doing so will open up his own wounds. This work uses an act of violence to explore faith and insanity. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 90.
Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the sacred and profane, and of the paltry value of a 'mundane' life, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment. Dr Dysart is the man given the task of uncovering what happened the night Strang committed his crime, but in doing so will open up his own wounds. Dysart struggles in secret to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141188904
SKU
V9780141188904
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-13
About Peter Shaffer
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.
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