Wit
a play
by Margaret Edson
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"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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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, AmericanPeople
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Wit : A Play
March 29, 1999, Faber & Faber
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in English
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0571198775 9780571198771
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Wit : a Play
1999, Faber and Faber, Inc.
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- a Division of Farrar Straus and Giroux
0739401912 9780739401910
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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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