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Summary Of Margaret Edson's Wit
A 1991 play, Wit written by Margaret Edson explore a women’s life, Vivian Bearing, is suffering from the final stage of ovarian cancer and being treated with a full dose chemotherapy experiment for eight months. She finds out she has cancer and has to deal with it all by herself with no family members and not many friends. Vivian is a literature professor of seventeenth century poetry and also specializes in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. (Edson pg. 5) She understood her life in an analytical security and she identifies herself as a scholar professor and a specialist in her field. The setting of this play is over the course of two hours in a hospital because that is all the time she has to tell us what happens to her and she knows that she
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