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Original Title:	Wit : A Play
ISBN:	0571198775 (ISBN13: 9780571198771)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1999)

Wit

Margaret Edson

Paperback | Pages: 85 pages

Rating: 4.21 | 12844 Users | 561 Reviews

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award Margaret Edson’s powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence’s unifying experiences—mortality—while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away—a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. As the playwright herself puts it, “The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. It’s about kindness, but it shows arrogance. It’s about compassion, but it shows insensitivity.” In Wit, Edson delves into timeless questions with no final answers: How should we live our lives knowing that we will die? Is the way we live our lives and interact with others more important than what we achieve materially, professionally, or intellectually? How does language figure into our lives? Can science and art help us conquer death, or our fear of it? What will seem most important to each of us about life as that life comes to an end? The immediacy of the presentation, and the clarity and elegance of Edson’s writing, make this sophisticated, multilayered play accessible to almost any interested reader. As the play begins, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the intricate, difficult Holy Sonnets of the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control of events, she brings to her illness the same intensely rational and painstakingly methodical approach that has guided her stellar academic career. But as her disease and its excruciatingly painful treatment inexorably progress, she begins to question the single-minded values and standards that have always directed her, finally coming to understand the aspects of life that make it truly worth living.

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Title	:	Wit
Author	:	Margaret Edson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 85 pages
Published	:	March 29th 1999 by Faber & Faber (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Fiction. Theatre. Academic. School

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Okay, so we did Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike at my community theatre a month ago. One of my dearest friends played Cassandra, the crazy/awesome/psychic housekeeper, and halfway through the run the co-props designer brings up Wit. I'd never heard of it but he told me all about how it's basically carried by one actor, the lead woman, whose character is a cancer patient. There are other characters in and out, but she never leaves the stage (no intermission) and has probably 90% of the

It is definitely a great play. I was constantly thinking on Susan Sontag's Illness and its metaphor. This book is full of wisdom and thinking about life. Whether life is a coma or a semicolon, or it is a wit that's it. These are riddles for human kind, even linguists or literary scholars won't know the answer. It worths re-reading. And I'm thinking we are all the next.

I am going to refrain from giving this stars (a practice I am trying out.)There are already some really good reviews on gr. I am not going to thoroughly review the play, but I do want to say a bit about my ambivalent response.This is a play narrated by a woman dying of metastatic cancer. Before getting sick she was a hard-core academic and her focus was 17th century poetry, particularly John Donne. She has very little access to emotional connection. She intellectualizes just about everything.

Although it's a short play, I read half of it one evening and the other half the next day, partly because I was sleepy and party because it's hard to take it. It's about a horrible disease, lack of sympathy, need of human connection, strength and vulnerability, loneliness and death. It's metaphysical and deeply touching. And then I started watching the movie (starring Emma Thompson) and the impact was ten times stronger. I wasn't able to keep on watching it until the end. It's tough because it's

I read this today at lunch because I forgot my Kindle at home. I knew the plot--I believe we watched the telefilm in my AP Lit course back when we covered John Donne--but it was still a sucker-punch of a play. Exquisitely written, achingly lonely and sad. The metaphors are so strong without feeling like they bash you over the head with it, which I really appreciated. In lesser hands, this could've been overly sentimental, or overly black-and-white, and perhaps in some ways it is; the characters

I first saw the play Wit (it is actually "W;t") in a tiny theater in Philadelphia. I was left speechless at the end, and it lived in my head for weeks. This play is an extraordinary effort for a first time writer.As a nurse,the story of Vivian Bearing, to me, is a story of kindness, and the lack of it. At the time I read it, I was also teaching and saw the professorial character of Vivian in many of my colleagues. The sense of power over students and the hurt that power exerts is something that

A moving Pulitzer award-winning brilliant play by Margaret Edson (born 1961). A dying highly respected poetry professor specializing on John Donne works. The professor is diagnosed with stage 4 (there is no stage 5) ovarian cancer and she is expected to die in few days. The play chronicles her last few hours on earth. She is visited by her former professor who offers to read her a John Donne poem. She declines so her visitor pulls out a childrens book she just brought for her great-grandsons