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Publication year 1995
Genre Play, Fiction
Themes Life/Time: Mortality & Death
Tags Education, Education, Grief / Death, Modern Classic Fiction, Drama / Tragedy, Classic Fiction, Health / Medicine
Wit—sometimes spelled as W;t—is a Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Margaret Edson first published in 1995. The play follows the story of Dr. Vivian Bearing, a 50-year-old professor of 17th-century poetry who has recently been diagnosed with stage-four metastatic ovarian cancer. The plot itself is nonlinear; for example, the opening scene of the play takes place two hours before Vivian dies, but the play switches between Vivian’s childhood, career, and treatment milestones to tell her whole... Read Wit Summary