If passion is what you want, read Jane Eyre

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reviews (very) briefly Wide Sargasso Sea 2006 DVD:

Less sensational than the 1993 film version, "Sea" manages to be sensual and harrowing as Antoinette descends into madness.

You'll never guess what is mentioned in a new review of the Arena Stage's performances of The Mystery of Irma Vep:

The three men [Patrick Noonan, Brad dePlanche and John Helsinger], describe the show as a comical blend of such films as "Rebecca," "Wuthering Heights," "Jane Eyre" and "Gaslight," along with such horror films as "The Mummy" and "Dracula. (Jay Handelman in the Sarasota Herald Tribune]

[Brad DePlanche] noted further that Ludlam's work depends heavily on Daphne DuMaurier's novel Rebecca as a source of satire. "People will recognize passages that are almost directly lifted from Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights" -- and classic poetry by Lord Byron and Percy Shelley. And he thinks that the play has a serious subtext: "Of course, we want you to laugh; and it's primarily a laughfest. But what we're hoping is that on some level, every bit of humor comes from a very truthful place. ... We're really hoping that you will see three-dimensional, fully fleshed-out characters that have feelings, and hopefully we'll evoke some feelings in you." (Mark E. Leib in Creative Loafing Sarasota)

Playwright Charles Ludlam has borrowed liberally from the classics of the genre. Principal among these is Hitchcock's "Rebecca," but there are also touches of "The Hound of the Baskervilles," "Wuthering Heights," "Count Dracula" and films like "Gaslight" and "The Mummy's Curse." (Lucia Anderson in the Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star)

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An audience unfamiliar with “Gone With the Wind,” “Rebecca,” “The Mummy’s Curse,” “Macbeth,” “Deliverance,” “Wuthering Heights,” (if such an audience even exists) would miss the points of reference for Ludlam’s serious business of spinning a ridiculous tale. And where better to begin than with our favorite, heavy-breathing romance-mystery-adventure stories with a touch of the supernatural?(Maggie Lawrence in The Star Exponent)

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Catherine Townsend writes in her column in The Independent about the wonders of a drama-free relationship:

I feel that I'm in a dilemma: I've read way too many love stories that involve conflict, and this one seems far too easy. But thinking about it, how many of those ended happily? In Wuthering Heights both of the main characters ended up dead, and Jane Eyre only got her man after he was blind and broke.

But the other Independent, the Irish one, carries an article about just the opposite. Why women love bastards... sorry, bad guys. Guess who is mentioned:

Of course, we have seen this for generations reflected on the big screen -- villains we can't help loving, like Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, hell, even Mr Big in Sex in the City. (Siobhan Cronin)

Another radically different columnist, John Mark Reynolds on the On Faith Newsweek blog also happens to mention Jane Eyre:

If passion is what you want, read "Jane Eyre".
It is my "borrowed" book, since my wife had to force me to read it. Because she loved it, I opened it out of love's obligation and haven't stopped reading it since.Jane is an antidote to at least two diseases. The book helps those for whom love is a fever justifying wickedness and those who are too cold to know love's importance. Against both excess and defect, Jane posits a romantic vision which hasn't stopped teaching me yet.

Ecataromance interviews Penelope Marzec who can be classified as Brontëite:

What authors inspire you?
PM: I get inspired by well-written books–and in my search for entertaining reads I often try new authors. (...)
However, I continue to read some very old novels and find them delightful. My favorite book will always be Jane Eyre.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense has read Wuthering Heights. History and Women posts about Charlotte Brontë. The Seacost of Bohemia reviews Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. We have no idea what this Vietnamese post says about Jane Eyre. Finally Suite101 begins what they announced as

The first in a series looking at Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: this article looks at the context of the novel's publication and provides an overview of the plot. (Elizabeth Gregory)

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Theatre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights