Equus (play) Equus (play) 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. The play's action is something of a detective story, involving the attempts of the child psychiatrist Dr. Martin
Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang University of Newcastle from 1975 to 1982 and Dean of Faculty of Arts at University of Newcastle from 1976 to 1979. He succeeded to the title in 1978. He married the English scholar Barbara Strang and they had one daughter. He married again twice. The peerage became extinct on his death in 2014. Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang (12 June 1922 – 19 December 2014) was a British Professor of Philosophy and hereditary peer. Strang was the only son of William Strang, 1st Baron Strang, a diplomat who served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign