Shaped by the theatre

April de Angelis's Wuthering Heights theatre adaptation is published by Samuel French Ltd:

Wuthering Heights
A new adaptation by April De Angelis from the novel by Emily Brontë
Play - Full Length
Samuel French LTd.
£8.50
ISBN: 0573114951
ISBN-13: 978057311495-3


M8 F7, 1 boy, may be played by M6 F4 with doubling. Extras. Various simple settings. Period early Victorian
A brand new adaptation brings Emily Brontë’s passionate and spellbinding tale of forbidden love and revenge to life on stage. Set on the wild, windswept Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights is the tempestuous story of free-spirited Catherine and dark, brooding Heathcliff. As children running wild and free on the moors, Cathy and Heathcliff are inseperable. As they grow up, their affection deepens into passionate love, but Cathy lets her head rule her heart as she chooses to marry wealthy Edgar Linton. Heathcliff flees broken-hearted, only to return seeking terrible vengeance on those he holds responsible, with epic and tragic results.
“I was relieved to see an adaptation of this wonderful Emily Brontë novel that was true to her creation.” Birmingham Mail

Heathcliff. Cathy. Edgar Linton. Young Cathy: daughter of Cathy. Nelly Dean: servant. Mr Lockwood: tenant of Thrushcross Grange. Hindley: Cathy's elder brother. Hareton: Hindley's son. Joseph: servant. Mr Linton: Edgar and Isabella's father. Frances: Hindley's wife. Mary: young servant. Isabella Linton: Edgar's younger sister. Zillah: servant. Jabes Branderham: a reverend. Servant. Lad. Band of Musicians.

And Emily Brontë's novel also features in

Shaped by Stories
The Ethical Power of Narratives
Marshall Gregory
University of Notre Dame Press
Paper Edition 2009
240 pages
ISBN 10: 0-268-02974-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-268-02974-6

In his latest book, Marshall Gregory begins with the premise that our lives are saturated with stories, ranging from magazines, books, films, television, and blogs to the words spoken by politicians, pastors, and teachers. He then explores the ethical implications of this universal human obsession with narratives. Through careful readings of Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Grave” and Thurber’s “The Catbird Seat,” as well as David Copperfield, Wuthering Heights, and other works, Gregory asks (and answers) the question: How do the stories we absorb in our daily lives influence the kinds of persons we turn out to be?

Chapter 9 is named Ethical engagements over time : reading and rereading David Copperfield and Wuthering Heights.

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