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 Wit Information
537 words, approx. 2 pages
 Wit is a play by Margaret Edson about a university professor of English who is dying of ovarian cancer. As she copes with her life-threatening cancer she assesses her own life through the intricacies of the English language, especially the use of wit...
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 The Washington Post They are playing hardball wit ...
08/03/2005: 529 words, approx. 2 pages They are playing hardball with employees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. On June 2, local police handcuffed and arrested a patent examiner at the agency's offices in Alexandria, charging the federal employee with a felony for allegedly falsifying his time card... summary from source:
Evening Standard - London Birtwistle played with wit and grace CLASSICAL
11/04/2004: 341 words, approx. 1 pages Pierre-Laurent Aimard Queen Elizabeth Hall WHO NEEDS applause? No doubt performers appreciate our appreciation, but too often applause gets in the way of the music, especially if listeners disagree about the right time to clap. Wisely, Pierre-Laurent Aimard requested that we contain... summary from source:
 AP News CIA Leak Witnesses
1/13/2007: 983 words, approx. 3 pagesA list of potential witnesses in the obstruction and perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Prosecution and defense lawyers are not required to provide lists of their witnesses. These names were drawn from court documents... summary from source:
AP News Spector defense witness grilled
7/27/2007: 725 words, approx. 2 pagesWith her dying gasp after being shot through the mouth, actress Lana Clarkson may have breathed out blood that spattered on Phil Spector's jacket, a forensic pathologist testified Thursday in the music producer's murder trial.But Dr. Werner Spitz said that would not change his opinion...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Mary K. DeShazer
11,142 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, DeShazer analyzes four plays containing women's cancer as the primary thematic element, contending that performance theater allows for a different examination of feminist explorations of the female body.
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Critical Essay by Bruce Michelson
10,933 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Michelson assesses the value and meaning of ‘wit’ in the context of its modern and medieval meanings through his examination of Edson's Wit and, to a lesser extent, John Redford's 1530 drama The Play of Wyt and Science.
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Critical Essay by Jacqueline Vanhoutte
7,621 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Vanhoutte notes that Edson uses cancer as a tool to judge how Vivian has lived her life—a stereotype to which Vanhoutte objects, arguing that such methodology maintains the misguided belief that cancer is in some way a metaphysical punishment for poor life choices.
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Wit by Margaret Edson | |
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