"Death of a Salesman" later beat out "Gore Vidal's The Best Man, " "Master Class" and "Wit" for the best revival of a play.

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Here, too, I suspect that the passage of time has worked against Ms. Edson, if only because so many of the baby boomers who saw "Wit" the first time around have since learned from personal experience that the last part of the play only begins to suggest the ugly horrors of a painful death.

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