Heathcliff poked Cathy

The Yorkshire Post informs of some urban changes in Thornton:

Spectacular views across Bradford's Clayton Valley will soon be accessible as Thornton Viaduct reopens as a traffic-free route for the first time.
Work has started at either end of the viaduct in the third phase of the Great Northern Railway Trail, which will become a walk and cycle route stretching from Cullingworth to Queensbury in west Bradford using the former Great Northern Railway line.
One new section will extend from Thornton Primary School to Headley Lane over the recently repaired viaduct.
Another will connect Thornton Primary School to a new housing development west of Thornton village and to the village centre, noted as the birthplace of the Bronte sisters. (Fiona Evans)

It seems that the Wuthering Heights production presented at the London Ontario Fringe Festival has been a total success:

The London Fringe, which wrapped up last night, increased sales this year by about 1,000 tickets, thanks to the success of such local shows as Wuthering Heights and an advanced ticket purchase option introduced this year.
Wuthering Heights, a Theatre Nemesis production, was voted best show.
About 18,000 tickets were sold during the 10-day festival.
"It's been a fabulous year. We're just delighted," said Fringe executive producer Kathy Navackas.
"People are starting to catch on to the real value and that the money goes back directly to artists." (Kathy Rumleski in The London Free Press)

Glide Magazine reviews Radiohead's The Best Of and Coldplay's Viva La Vida and makes the following curious statement:

Same for Viva La Vida, kind of, though one gets the immediate impression that while Radiohead were reading Wuthering Heights the Coldplay bums were watching Gilligan’s Island with pop radio playing in the background and a chick on the phone. (Eric Saeger)

The Guardian's Book Blog talks about the (very funny) Facebook News Feed Edition of Hamlet (published on McSweeney's) and suggests possible new adaptations:

Presumably similar tricks could be played on other classics (Pip has come into a bit of money; Heathcliff poked Cathy; Marcel is now friends with Baron de Charlus; Gregor Samsa is havng trquble typping, etc etc.) (Lindesay Irvine)

The Scotsman interviews biologist and science writer Richard Dawkins who in order to illustrate his point cannot avoid a Brontë reference:

On Desert Island Discs, one of his choices was Bach’s St Matthew Passion – from which he quotes, in German, with some warmth when I mention it. “Just glorious, and it’s not just the music. The drama of the passion of Jesus, as a work of fiction, is something you can lose yourself in, just as one can reading a novel. You don’t have to believe that Heathcliff and Cathy really existed to get caught up in the emotion.” (Jim Gilchrist)

Brontë references can be found even in an article about the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games:

Great art is great absolutely, but who does not know the fate awaiting Heathcliff, or Charles Bovary, or Macbeth? Sure we might marvel at a new interpretation, the emergence of the next Olivier. Sport is trivial in essence. Hopefully, nobody dies. But on days like this it bathes us all in a warm glow. Three cheers for our Welsh girl: hip hip, hooray. (Kevin Garsay in The Telegraph)

This is what the blogosphere brings today: Recomendaciones literarias (in Spanish) posts about Wuthering Heights. Crises de TPM - in Portuguese - has just discovered Jane Eyre. And Ramblin' Rose has uploaded a couple of nice photographs from Patrick Brontë's birthplace in Ireland.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Patrick Brontë, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights