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
Peter Denny Strang Peter Denny Strang Peter Denny Strang was an English sportsman who played rugby union at an international level, touring Argentina with the 1910 Combined British rugby union side, an early incarnation of the British and Irish Lions. Peter Denny Strang was born on 26 April 1889, in London, the son of William, an artist and Agnes. He attended Merchant Taylors School where he featured in the School first fifteen rugby squad in 1904-05. He left school in 1905 and for some time studied at Aspatria Agricultural College in Cumberland. Strang played his rugby for his school's old boys club, Old