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Equus Workforce Solutions is a company that provides workforce services and solutions in North America. It has nothing to do with equus, the Latin word for horse or the genus name of horses.
Equus is a 1973 play by Peter Shaffer, about a child psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. [1] Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old boy who blinded six horses in a small town in northern England.
- Peter Shaffer
- 1973
Equus ( / ˈɛkwəs, ˈiːkwəs /) [3] is a genus of mammals in the family Equidae, which includes horses, asses, and zebras. Within the Equidae, Equus is the only recognized extant genus, comprising seven living species. Like Equidae more broadly, Equus has numerous extinct species known only from fossils.
Equus is a play about a psychiatrist who tries to help a boy who blinded six horses in a ritual for the god Equus. The play explores themes of religion, sexuality, and sanity through flashbacks, hypnosis, and chorus scenes.
Learn about Peter Shaffer's play Equus, a modern drama about a stable boy who blinds horses. Find summaries, analysis, themes, quotes, characters, symbols, and more.
Equus, drama in two acts by Peter Shaffer, produced and published in 1973. It depicts a psychiatrist’s fascination with a disturbed teenager’s mythopoeic obsession with horses. The drama unfolds through the eyes of Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist and an amateur mythologist, who narrates the events of.
Equus embodies a paradox: he is at once in chains, yet also has the capacity to be free. Like Christ, Equus must first suffer in order to bring salvation. Alan will be saved, he says, by riding away on Equus—the horse can thus be interpreted as Alan’s escape from the pressures of his family life and modern society.
