Zadie Smith's updated Chaucerian tale has a spring in its step and a twinkle in its eye Zadie Smith might not be the only writer who can rhyme "tandem" with "galdem", but she's the only one who can do it in an adaptation of Chaucer. In The Wife of Willesden, her debut play, a modern version of one of the Canterbury Tales, Smith's talent for mixing high and low is at full power.
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:54AM on November 19, 2021