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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Smith, Zadie.     Subjects     Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales -- Adaptations.     English literature -- Drama -- 21st century.     English drama -- Black authors.     English drama -- Women authors.     English drama -- 21st century.     Women -- Drama.     Women -- Poetry.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Smith, Zadie.       by title:      The wife of Willesde...       by call number:      822.92 S644w     Search the Web     Smith, Zadie.     Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales -- Adaptations.     English literature -- Drama -- 21st century.     English drama -- Black authors.     English drama -- Women authors.     English drama -- 21st century.     Women -- Drama.     Women -- Poetry.       MARC Display

The wife of Willesden / Zadie Smith. by Smith, Zadie. Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2023. Call #: 822.92 S644w Subjects Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales -- Adaptations.   English literature -- Drama -- 21st century.   English drama -- Black authors.   English drama -- Women authors.   English drama -- 21st century.   Women -- Drama.   Women -- Poetry. ISBN:  9780735246973 (pbk) Description:  189 p. ; 20 cm. Notes:  A play. Summary:  "Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath. 'Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ears and eyes...' 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 her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a mixture of London slang and patois, Alvita recalls her five marriages in outrageous, bawdy detail, rewrites her mistakes as triumphs, and shares her beliefs on femininity, sexuality, and misogyny with anyone willing to listen. A thoughtful reimagining of an unforgettable narrative of female sexual power, written with singular verve and wit, The Wife of Willesden shows why Zadie Smith is one of the sharpest and most versatile writers working today."--Publisher. Genre:  Verse drama. English poetry. Other authors:  Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Wife of Bath's tale. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 822.92 S644w Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 822.92 S644w Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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