Martin Luther King Jr. is shot to death at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. A single shot fired by James Earl Ray from over 200 feet away at a nearby motel struck King in the neck. He died an hour later at St. Josephâs Hospital. The death of Americaâs leading...
They became the Kingâs Men -- the official court players for the king. Shakespeare was not just writing his Othello play for King James, but rather he wrote the play about King James. It is important to know that the playâs first recorded performance was 1 November, 1604. It was performed in the Palace of Whitehall, in the Banqueting House, for the king himself.
Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk. He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime.