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Author Shaffer, Peter, 1926-2016.

Title Equus / Peter Shaffer
Published Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin, 1977
©1974

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  820.914 S5254 A6/E 1977  AVAILABLE
 MELB  820.914 S5254 A6/E 1977  AVAILABLE
Description 108 pages ; 20 cm
Series Penguin plays
Penguin plays.
Summary "An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. Equus is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest recesses of human existence."
Notes "First published in Penguin Books in a collection with Five finger exercise and Shrivings, 1976" - t.p. verso
First published: Andre Deutsch, 1973
First published: USA : Atheneum, 1974
Subject Drama -- Therapeutic use.
Drama -- 20th century.
English drama -- 20th century.
Horses -- Drama.
Psychopathology.
Adolescent.
Genre/Form Drama.
ISBN 0140481850 (paperback)