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
Anthony Shaffer (writer) than any bequest in Shaffer's will (which had been changed in 1999). He co-wrote three detective novels with his playwright brother Peter Shaffer under the pseudonym "Peter Antony". Anthony Shaffer (writer) Anthony Joshua Shaffer (15 May 19266 November 2001) was an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister and advertising executive. Shaffer was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool, the son of Reka (née Fredman) and Jack Shaffer. He was the identical twin brother of writer and dramatist Peter Shaffer, and they had another brother, Brian. Shaffer was educated at The Hall School, Hampstead, a boys' prep school and St. Paul's