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NSFW: Chaucer’s bawdy Wife of Bath gets a modern makeover in Zadie Smith’s ‘Wife of Willesden’

Por: The Boston Globe Life February 24, 2023

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Chaucer gets a 21st-century reboot in Zadie Smith’s rollicking verse drama, which will be playing at the American Repertory Theater’s Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge from Feb. 25 to March 18. “The Wife of Willesden” reinvents his Wife of Bath as the much-married Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman holding forth in a pub on Kilburn High Road. The Southwark tavern where Chaucer’s pilgrims made their storytelling pact has been moved... + full article



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