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Title: Wit : A Play by Margaret Edson ISBN: 0571198775 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfection
Comment: This play is nothing short of beautiful. I read W;t this afternoon, and it was the most genuinely moving, heart-wrenching work of art that I have yet encountered. Written with the utmost eloquence and truth (and, of course, wit), Ms. Edson creates an utterly facinating and spirited character in Vivian Bearing, a brilliant, hard-nosed professor of 17th century poetry, specifically the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, who is diagnosed with fourth stage ovarian cancer. I insist that everyone either get your tickets for W;t at the Union Square Theatre or go to your local bookseller and pick up a copy of the play. It is one that you will never forget.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderfully written
Comment: Vivian is an English professor and an expert of John Donne's Holy Sonnets. Not being familiar with these sonnets, I found myself silently repeating the phrases in order to make sense what they meant. It was a great learning experience. Vivian is a quiet, comtemplative and lonely woman who enters the cold sterile world of medical research after being told she has ovarian cancer. Her perceptions of what she experiences are interwoven with her knowledge of literature. She is humorous and witty about what is said to her during her final stage of life. I loved this book and was fortunate to watch the play on HBO with Emma Thompson. Please read this and than watch the play. It is truly a great experience
Rating: 5
Summary: honest, moving, and sharp witted humor
Comment: I thoroughly enjoyed this play. It is a quick read. Very funny. And even more poignant. It makes me want to go out and study the poetry of John Donne. It is a truthful telling of the medical world and how some doctors see their patients as "research", but it is also this approach to her which causes our heroine to reapproach her study of Donne in a more personal and less academic light. With her own experience of life and death she finally gains deeper understanding of the metaphysical poet. This is a heartbreaker. Anyone who has lost a loved one to cancer, or saw them through the fight against it, will be greatly affected by this play. And those rare and privileged few who have not know anyone with this dreadful illness will still be touched. Despite its sometimes seemingly cold hearted jabs, which make it all the more funny, this play is full of the warmth of love and grief and joy. Read it to know what I mean.
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Title: Proof: A Play by David Auburn ISBN: 0571199976 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title:Wit ASIN: B00005NRPD Publisher: Hbo Studios Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.94 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.94 |
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Title:Wit ASIN: B00005MKKV Publisher: Hbo Studios Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.48 |
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Title: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn ISBN: 0385720793 Publisher: Anchor Books Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks ISBN: 1559362014 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: 04 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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