Wit: A Play by Margaret Edson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Wit: A Play
Book Review: Wit
Summary: 4 Stars
This play tells such a beautiful story. Margaret Edson has done a wonderful job with writing characters that one can really understand and relate to. A beautifully written piece of work.Book Review: Wit as Art
Summary: 5 Stars
I was very encouraged by the reviews posted here by real cancer patients describing how powerfully affected they were by Margaret Edson's play. I am suddenly reminded of both the power and necessity of art as an urgent and driving form of human expression. That we can experience a fiction and take from it something that is real and applicable to our lives is truly an incredible thing. After all, without the spurring of some form of inner transformation, however minute, why would art even be necessary? When we experience a piece of art, whether we are conscious of it or not, we are seeking some sort of common ground, some sort of recognizable truth with or within that piece. Some of us may find this in a particular work, some of us may not. But the validation of one person validates the entire piece. Margaret Edson has been justly applauded for producing a work of art that has elicited a spiritual validation from those who are old, young, ill, and healthy, alike. It is truly a work that will weather the ages.Book Review: boring
Summary: 1 Stars
"Wit" is elitist and pretentious. It is less than a halfBook Review: deserving winner of the pulitzer prize!
Summary: 5 Stars
absorbing;powerful;moving;very high level of writing;great last scene. and these are my reactions to the reading of the play. it must be dynamite when performed on stage.p.s. take it from a 72 year old, this is a must read book and a must see play.
Book Review: excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
This play is a wonderful companion to Donne. It isn't necessary to have read the poetry/sermons of Donne to appreciate this beautifully moving play, yet it is a fulfilling exercise to read the works in tandem.