Peter Shaffer
Paperback | Pages: 112 pages Rating: 3.94 | 18128 Users | 606 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Equus : a play |
| ISBN: | 0140260706 (ISBN13: 9780140260700) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | England |
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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.List Of Books Equus
| Title | : | Equus |
| Author | : | Peter Shaffer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First 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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Ratings: 3.94 From 18128 Users | 606 ReviewsComment On Of Books Equus
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. 🚫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.
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.
This play has sat on my shelf for eight years after getting it for a dollar at a theater flea market. (It's a Samuel French edition, but from London; the size is all wrong and the paper is all funny.) It seemed like a good idea at the time, since coming out of high school I self-educated myself in playwriting by simply reading every play I'd heard of. Heard of this one! But then I just sat there with it. A couple Saturdays ago I pulled it down to read. The play is getting a lot of press right
I really don't appreciate the idea of a know it all psychologist. Descriptions are too explicit, too much monologue and little space left for contemplation.
I actually wrote an essay on this play as a favour to a girlfriend years ago. It was part of her A Level coursework and she'd forgotten all about it!I had to read the play and write the essay in one night. Got a A- for it - or whatever the marking was back then. Not bad for one night's work!From what I remember, I absorbed this material effortlessly, as you always do with great writing. It was dark and shocking and played right into my wheelhouse. I seemed to get the metaphors fairly fast and
On re-reading 12/10/18: Been teaching it for years now, but haven't actually read it cover-to-cover in a while (2016, it seems). Anyway, I finally decided to read the copy that the students buy and update page numbers in questions and stuff. Just gotta say, play is still amazing! I'd love to see it performed.On re-reading 3/20/16: I've re-read this numerous times since my junior year of high school; however, the last time was probably about a decade ago. Now, in revising my ENG 102 class and
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