The wife of Willesden /
"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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| Language: | English English, Middle (1100-1500) |
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[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.