Posted on Feb 5, 2023
A Wife of Bath 'biography' brings a modern woman out of the Middle Ages
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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..."More recently, the character has been celebrated and re-interpreted by several prominent postcolonial writers. Novelist Zadie Smith wrote her first play based on the character. Upon its premiere in 2021, The Guardian called The Wife of Willesden, "a bawdy treat," and "a celebration of community and local legends, of telling a good story and living a life worth telling. Not bad for an original text that's 600 years old."
And it's impossible not to be moved by the late, pioneering dub poet Jean "Binta" Breeze's take on the character. She performed "The Wife of Bath in Brixton Market" on location in 2009."...
..."More recently, the character has been celebrated and re-interpreted by several prominent postcolonial writers. Novelist Zadie Smith wrote her first play based on the character. Upon its premiere in 2021, The Guardian called The Wife of Willesden, "a bawdy treat," and "a celebration of community and local legends, of telling a good story and living a life worth telling. Not bad for an original text that's 600 years old."
And it's impossible not to be moved by the late, pioneering dub poet Jean "Binta" Breeze's take on the character. She performed "The Wife of Bath in Brixton Market" on location in 2009."...
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