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play by Edson
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American literature
- In American literature: The Off-Broadway ascendancy
…of 1665; and Margaret Edson’s Wit (1995), about the slow, poignant cancer death of a literary scholar whose life has been shaped by the eloquence and wit of Metaphysical poetry.
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direction by Nichols
- In Mike Nichols: Later projects: Wit, Angels in America, Spamalot, and Death of a Salesman
Wit (2001), made for HBO, was a likelier project for Nichols. An adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, it starred Thompson (who coscripted with Nichols) as a cancer-stricken English professor who reflects on key moments of her life as she undergoes chemotherapy…
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