W;t: a play

by Edson, Margaret

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Title Statements

Full title :W;t : a play / by Margaret Edson.

Summary

"In this extraordinary 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"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1999
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1999

Notes

"First published in somewhat different form in Plays from South Coast Rep, Volume Two, published in 1999 by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc."--Title page verso.

The Physical Object

Description:85 pages : : illustration ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780571198771, 0571198775
oclc:on1036676787
LC Classification:PS3555.D4845
Dewey Decimal:812/.54

Subjects

Cancer in women Cancer in women -- Drama Drama English teachers English teachers -- Drama Faculty Ficitonal Works Literature, Modern Ovarian Neoplasms -- psychology plays (performing arts compositions) Theatre Théâtre (Genre littéraire) Women college teachers Women college teachers -- Drama