Equus

Peter Shaffer's Equus is a psychological drama in which a young boy named Alan is in the care of psychiatrist Dr. Dysart. The boy has an "abnormal" obsession with horses and has been sent to the psychiatrist after stabbing six horses in the eyes. Through a long series of interviews, Shaffer demonstrates the thin line between sanity and insanity. The boy appears at first to be crazy, uncooperative, and refuses to respond the magistrate other than through the repetition of popular commercial advertisements "Double your pleasure, double your fun, With double good, double good, double mint gum" (Shaffer 7).

However, Dr. Dysart is a master of getting people to reveal their deepest secrets as much as Alan is a master of co

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