The Wuthering Narnia project with a lesbian twist

The Globe and Mail publishes an interview with the Canadian playwright and director Vern Thiessen. It seems that he is preparing a Wuthering Heights adaptation:

One novel he has read and is currently adapting to the stage is Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. It's one of four or five scripts he's juggling at the moment, a fact he handles with professional aplomb: "It's my job," he says. "I write very, very slowly. It takes me between two to five years from beginning to first production."

We have resisted to publish this some days, but the news are appearing incensantly in so many papers that... well, here it is:

Kathy Berger gave up on her high school education during her senior year at Tyner High after her English teacher threw 16 of her book reports in the trash because they were late. (...)

Last week the Rockledge, Fla., resident, now 82, received a diploma from Chattanooga's Tyner High, delivered personally to her house by principal Carol Goss. (...)

Goss determined Berger lacked only one English credit and made an offer: If Berger read a book and turned in an analysis, Goss would consider awarding her a diploma.

Berger checked out a large-print copy of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" from the public library, and she struggled through its pages.

"She called me a couple of times and said, 'This book is so boring,'" Goss remembered.

Ms. Berger got her degree but we are afraid that it will not be included in our Brontëites category.

The Sedulia's Quotations blog publishes today this quote of C.S. Lewis on Jane Eyre:

This week I have re-read Jane Eyre. It is quite prodigiously better than the other Bronte books.... Part of the interest lies in seeing in the most (apparently) preposterous male characters how quite ordinary people look through the eyes of a shy, naive, inflexibly upright, intelligent little woman of the mouse-like governessy type. It opens vistas-- how you or I look to Maureen's friend "Fuller" or how we may all have looked to "Smudge"....Particularly delicious is her idea of conjugal bliss when she says almost on the last page, "We talk, I believe, all day."

--C.S. Lewis, in a letter to his brother, 19 November 1939, as quoted in C.S. Lewis Collected Letters. Lewis married in 1956.

And, finally, the gratuituous quote of the day: the US release of the Cynara-Poetry in Motion DVD, directed by Nicole Conn, is described like this:

Reminiscent of a lesbian twist on the classic Wuthering Heights, CYNARA plays out a glorious lesbian romance full of brilliant chemistry, hot love scenes and glossy production values.

Well, we have read some scholars discussing about Emily Brontë and lesbianism, but we are afraid that this is not what the publishers of the movie were thinking of :P.

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