The Wife of Willesden: Incorporating The Wife of Willesden’s Tale Which Tale is Preceded by The General Lock-In and The Wife of Willesden’s Prologue and Followed by A Retraction.
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Zadie.
The Wife of Willesden: Incorporating The Wife of Willesden’s Tale Which Tale is Preceded by The General Lock-In and The Wife of Willesden’s Prologue and Followed by A Retraction.
- Published
- London: Penguin, 2021.
- Physical Description
- xx, 110 pp.
- Description
- Verse-drama adaptation/translation of WBPT and Ret in decasyllabic rhyming couplets and north London dialect, with Jamaican patois, and multiple actors. WBP is set in a contemporary London pub; WBT, in eighteenth-century Maroon Town, Jamaica, under the rule of Queen Nanny. Reprinted 2023 (xx, 187 pp.), accompanied by text and glosses of WBPT and Ret (Riverside edition) and an extension to the title: "Told in Verse Couplets Translated from the Chaucerian into North Weezian."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Chaucer's Retraction
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion