Category Archives: Edson (Margaret)

Don’t Underestimate Students

By Robin Bates | Published: January 20, 2010

I begin my two literature classes today and, as always, am filled with trepidation.  Will I be the teacher my students need me to be?  Margaret Edson’s play W;t reminds me that, if I stay true to the literature, all will be well. W;t, functions in part as a criticism of those college literature professors [...]

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Wit Won’t Cushion Us against Death

By Robin Bates | Published: January 8, 2010

Will John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” help one handle the fact that one has cancer? It is significant that the cancer victim and Donne scholar in Margaret Edson’s W;t is rejecting her poet by the end of the play. I’m actually not sure whether this particular poem would help any cancer patient. There’s a [...]

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