Peter Shaffer Boeken

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

Winner of the Evening Standard Drama Award as best play of 1979, and of the Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award 'Shaffer works out his tremendous, his colossal, theme in language of great strength... those who go to it prepared to understand what it is about will have an experience that far transcends even its considerable value as drama' - Bernard Levis in The Times 'A marvellously engrossing and often amusing costume-thriller, a feast for the eye and the ear' - Steve Grant in the Observer 'Glorious... Amadeus may be a play inspired by music and death, but it fills the theatre with that mocking, heavenly silence that is the overwhelming terror of life' - The New York Times 'He is dealing with the very nature of art; with immortality itself... Shaffer paints his heady subject on a wide and spectacular canvas' - Jack Tinker in the Daily Mail This edition includes a postscript by Peter Shaffer on the making of the film Amadeus.

This volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author.

The first stage success from the author of EQUUS and AMADEUS. This family drama centers on a young German student who, coming to England to tutor the daughter of a well-to-do family, is drawn into the various individual dramas of these fractured, isolated people.