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Margaret Edson

Wit (NHB Modern Plays)

A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned specialist in the brilliantly difficult Holy Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with stage four metastatic ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to Donne: aggressively probing and intensely rational.
But during the course of her illness — and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy programme — she comes to reassess her life and her work with profundity and an unbearably moving wry humour.
Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit was first performed in 1995. It was filmed for TV by Mike Nichols in 2001, starring Emma Thompson (who also wrote the screenplay).
54 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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Quotes

  • 계 계정has quoted6 years ago
    Soporific. Causing sleep.
  • 계 계정has quoted6 years ago
    It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is sopor – sop – or – what is that word?
  • 계 계정has quoted6 years ago
    Let me think: boring conversation, I suppose, after dinner

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