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Cermák, Ivo, Vladimir Chrz, and Katerina Zábrodská "“4.48 Psychosis” as a Suicide Note of Sarah Kane?" (2007): 111-119 Not only does loss affect the character in Kane’s play but also the author herself, who had committed suicide a few years after publishing 4.48 Psychosis. An analysis that was completed by three professors from the University of Huddersfield; in this analysis they focus on answering the question: “What might have hastened the suicidal process of Sarah Kane?”. The authors of this analysis decided to focus on two perspectives, regressive and genre. This analysis is broken down into seven different sections, each section giving me a better understanding of who Sarah Kane was and how her life affecter her writing. There is very

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