An edition of Wit (1999)

Wit

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An edition of Wit (1999)

Wit

a play

1st ed.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.3 (3 ratings) ·
  • 152 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

"In this play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. At the start of Wit, Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliantly difficult Holy Sonnets of the metaphysical poet John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing and intensely rational. But during the course of her illness - and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital - Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and for the audience."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Faber and Faber
Language
English
Pages
85

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Subjects

Drama, Cancer in women, Women college teachers, English teachers, Terminally ill, Psychology, Modern Literature, Faculty, Ovarian Neoplasms, Fictional Works, Neoplasms, Women, American drama (dramatic works by one author), Motion picture actors and actresses, American drama, history and criticism, American

People

Vivian Bearing, PhD

Times

1990s
Edition Availability
Cover of: Wit
Wit
April 2002, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding in English
Cover of: Wit
Wit
2000, Nick Hern Books
in English
Cover of: Wit
Wit : a Play
1999, Faber and Faber, Inc.
Hardcover - a Division of Farrar Straus and Giroux
Cover of: Wit
Wit
1999, Dramatists Play Service
in English
Cover of: Wit
Wit: a play
1999, Faber and Faber
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Wit
Wit: a play
1999, Faber and Faber
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Wit
Wit : A Play
March 29, 1999, Faber & Faber
Paperback in English - 1 edition

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.54
Library of Congress
PS3555.D4845 W58 1999, PS3555.D4845W58 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
85 p. ;
Number of pages
85

ID Numbers

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OL31456M
Internet Archive
witplay00edso
ISBN 10
0571198775
LCCN
99011921
OCLC/WorldCat
40602919
Library Thing
2271
Goodreads
171201

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Work Description

This play is about a professor who finds out she has stage four ovarian cancer. She realizes through her ordeal that she has no friends to fall back on, no family to support her. Over time she befriends the nurse that is taking care of her, and as her cancer treatment progresses she finally realizes the futility of success if there is no one to love.

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