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Name: Margaret Edson
Birth Date: July 4, 1961
Nationality: American
Gender: Female

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Biography of Margaret Edson
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Although she insists that her true vocation is teaching kindergarten, Margaret Edson has distinguished herself as a dramatist on the basis of her debut play. Wit, which premiered in Costa Mesa, California, in 1995, won several awards before moving to...


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Margaret Edson (b. July 4, 1961 in Washington, D.C.) is an American playwright. She won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Wit, about a John Donne scholar who is hospitalized for and dying of ovarian cancer. Edson graduated with a B.A. in...


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Christianity and Literature
Unwitting redemption in Margaret Edson's Wit.(Critical Essay)
01/01/2002: 6,025 words, approx. 20 pages
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, Margaret Edson's medical drama Wit has garnered nearly unanimous acclaim. The play's honors include the Drama Desk, Dramatists Guild, New York Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Los Angeles Drama Critics, and Newsday Oppenheimer awards. Reviewers, too,...
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Comparative Drama
Cancer and the common woman in Margaret Edson's W;t.
09/22/2002: 7,746 words, approx. 26 pages
This essay is an exercise in the bringing together of apparently disparate roles. I am an assistant professor of Renaissance literature, and I am a cancer patient. These two identities rarely overlap, since cancer has not proved a popular literary subject. As Susan...
 


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