num_pages: 96
description: A stunning first play about an academic attempting to come to terms with cancer. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and made into an Emmy-award winning feature film starring Emma Thompson.Vivian Bearing, a specialist in the Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to probing and rational. During the course of her illness, she reassesses her life and work with profundity and wry humour.
language: English
title: Wit
titlecomplete: Wit
genres: School, Classics, Drama, Plays, Death, Fiction, Read For School, Medicine, Contemporary, Theatre
ratings_count: 16300
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama
publisher: HERN NICK