Margaret Edson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is an elementary school teacher. Between earning degrees in history and literature, she worked in the cancer and AIDS unit of a research hospital. Wit is her first play.
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Copyright © 1993, 1999 by Margaret Edson
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First edition, 1999
First published in somewhat different form in Plays from South Coast Rep, Volume Two, published in 1999 by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to HarperCollins Publishers for permission to reprint an excerpt from The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown. Copyright 1942 by HarperCollins Publishers. Text copyright renewed 1970 by Roberta Brown Rauch. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
The Divine Poems by John Donne, edited by Helen Gardner (2nd edition, 1978). Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. Please apply to Oxford University press for permission to use the written version of “If Poysonous mineralls” in any dramatic production or film of Wit.
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Photograph of Kathleen Chalfant in Wit by T. Charles Erickson
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