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Peter Shaffer 1926-: Critical Review by Russell Davies

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SOURCE: "Horses for Courses," in New Statesman, Vol. 86, No. 2211, 3 August 1973, pp. 165-66.

In thex following review, Davies praises the staging and performances of the London production of Equus, but he contends that Shaffer compromised his investigation of "our right to tamper with our fellow-beings in the cause of 'normality ' " by focusing on "a bunch of people already far gone in abnormality. "

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