The wife of Willesden / Zadie Smith.

"In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells h...

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Main Author: Smith, Zadie (Author)
Other Authors: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Format: Book
Language:English
Middle English
Published: [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From Chaucerian to North Weezian (via Twitter)
  • The Wife of Willesden. The General Lock-In ; The Wife of Willesden's Prologue ; The Wife of Willesden's Tale ; A Retraction
  • From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Wife of Bath's Prologue ; The Wife of Bath's Tale ; Chaucer's Retraction.