Equus
Winner of the 1974 Tony award, Peter Shaffer’s Equus dramatizes psychologist Martin Dysart’s case of a young boy, Alan, who has blinded six horses in late twentieth-century England. The play stresses the themes of individuality in a mass society, the value of compassion, the significance of suffering and love, and the value of justice.
About the Series:
Novel/Drama curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with plot summary, background, and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These study guides encourage the development of thinking, reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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Literary Form
British Drama
Student Activities
Students explore the play related to works of philosophy, psychology, religion, and literature. In this unit, students distinguish between naturalistic and expressionistic drama, analyze the influence of myth and psychology on drama, write a compare/contrast research paper, produce concept charts, create magazine graphics for concepts, write essays, journal, analyze poetry in relation to the drama; discuss in small and large groups, analyze graphics and symbols, and paraphrase.
Supplemental materials include a study guide with answer key and test with answer key.
Ethical Values
- Compassion
- Faith
- Freedom
- Self-actualization
- Truth
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