Summary Of Margaret Edson's Wit

“Wit” was written in 1955 by playwright Margaret Edson, Wit is also a one - act play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Drama. Edson engages readers of the play and audience members in many ways throughout the life of Dr.Vivian that include, Dr.Vivian’s experiences, from being a professor of the seventeenth-century poetry, to a victim of terminal ovarian cancer, and death. Wit begins with Dr. Vivian talking to the audience this is the first way Edson has the characters from the play engage with the audience. This is a good way to start the play so the audience will get to know the characters. Dr.Vivan is a professor of the seventeenth-century English poetry at John Donne’s Holy sonnets. Dr.Vivian learns from Dr.Harvery Kelekian an oncologist,