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Author:

Edson, Margaret, 1961-

Title:

Wit : a play / by Margaret Edson.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Faber and Faber,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

85 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Cancer in women--Drama.
Women college teachers--Drama.
English teachers--Drama.
Ovarian Neoplasms--psychology.
Faculty.
Drama.
Literature, Modern.
Fictional Works

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9780571198771 (alk. paper)
0571198775 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40602919

LCCN:

99011921

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

KCSX145 -- Kuemper Catholic High School (Carroll)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

LASX353 -- CAL Community School District Library (Latimer)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)

41SX706 -- West Liberty High School Library (West Liberty)