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 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 Office from 1949 to 1953, and was subsequently the first Convenor of the Crossbench peers in the House of Lords from 1968 to 1974. Strang was a Lecturer in Philosophy at Queens University, Belfast from 1951 to 1953 and at King's College, Newcastle from 1953 to 1975. He was Professor of Philosophy at