Wings (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Kopit
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Expressionism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: A hospital and a convalescent hospital
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama, Absurdist literature, Expressionist literature
- Subjects: Language or languages, 1970’s, Philosophy or philosophers, Self, Aviation or aviators, Diseases, Hospitals, Heart attack or disease, Physical therapy, Stroke
- Locales: London, England, Venice, Italy
Characters Discussed
Emily Stilson, a retired aviator in her seventies. She suffers a stroke and is taken to a hospital, where she recovers over a two-year period. The play presents both her internal thoughts and her external behavior. Internally, she remains intact, though she is extremely confused as to what has happened to her and where she is. Thrown back on her memories, she reaches the conclusion that, following an aviation accident, she is being held prisoner by unknown forces in a Romanian farmhouse disguised to look like a hospital. She interprets the doctors’...
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