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Equus

Name: Equus
Author: Peter Shaffer

1973 play by Peter Shaffer

Written workliterary workQ1347946

Author: Peter Shaffer
Language: English

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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.

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EEquus1977 · 1977 film directed by Sidney Lumet

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Main subject: horse
Date of first performance: 1973
Form of creative work: play

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