National Theatre Jane Eyre to be broadcast on YouTube

The fact that the National Theatre will be collaborating with YouTube in order to screen several of their plays is all over the news. One of said plays is Jane Eyre. From The Guardian:

Thursday night could become National Theatre night, as the company announced plans to broadcast some of its most popular productions for free during the lockdown.
The new two-month National Theatre at Home programme will begin with One Man, Two Guvnors, the Richard Bean comedy starring James Corden.
The films will be shown at 7pm every Thursday to try to recreate, where possible, the communal viewing experience. They will then be available on demand for seven days.
Lisa Burger, the executive director and joint chief executive of the National Theatre, said writers, actors and directors had all waived their rights to the productions.
“Everyone has said yes. Please. Let’s get it out to people,” she said. “It has taken a bit of negotiation and management but the outpouring from the industry has been fantastic.”
The shows will be available to watch on YouTube. They kick off on 2 April with a play regarded as one of the most joyously laugh-out-loud shows of the last decade.
One Man, Two Guvnors, directed by Nicholas Hytner, is Bean’s 2011 adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s 1746 comedy and a brilliant vehicle for Corden’s stage comedy skills. The Guardian’s Michael Billington, giving it five stars, wrote: “The result, a kind of Carry On Carlo, is one of the funniest productions in the National’s history.”
That will be followed by Sally Cookson’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, a production that began at Bristol Old Vic; [...]
The shows will also have accompanying contact, which includes Q&As with casts and creatives and post-show talks. (Mark Brown)

Also reported by Stage Chat, Border Telegraph, Variety, Broadway World, etc.

Jane Eyre
This bold and innovative reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece uncovers one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms.
Streaming from 7pm on Thursday 9 April. Available until 16 April.

Vulture claims that,

Every protagonist in literature is lonely. Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet, Pip, Miss Jean Brodie, Holden Caulfield. They all live inside themselves — that’s what makes them interesting. The contented character has no place to go, no paths to improvement or destruction or unravelling. (Hillary Kelly)

This Cherwell contributor discussing the TV show YOU is clearly not a fan of Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights:

And the trope not exclusive to, nor even more popular within, modern popular culture. The orthodox literary canon is rife with abusive yet romantically desirable men, perhaps nowhere more so than in gothic literature. Take, for example, the heroes written by the Brontë sisters. Charlotte Brontë’s Mr Rochester is the type of guy who thinks it’s morally justified to lock up a female love interest in a confined space if and when he deems her out of her right mind: the only difference between him and YOU’s Joe Goldberg, is that Joe chooses a soundproof glass box rather than an attic as his prison. Often described as a proto-feminist work, readers have long been baffled by Jane Eyre’s ending, which sees Jane marry the ghastly individual who dehumanised his last wife for so many years.
And the problem doesn’t just lie in the literature itself. Subsequent adaptations of Jane Eyre, and indeed of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, tend to cast Mr Rochester and Heathcliff respectively as conventionally attractive, relatively young men, whose problematic behaviour is often acted more like troubled angst than abuse. The way in which these texts are retold needs to change radically in order to break the dangerous cycle of romanticising the abuser. (Cora Wilson)

InfoLibre (Spain) recommends Wide Sargasso Sea for self-isolation.

Lo que les propongo, ahora que las torres se multiplican, que todos estamos encerrados en las nuestras, tan aislados como nuestra pobre loca antillana, es que lean Ancho mar de los Sargazos y continúen con Jane Eyre; que disfruten del privilegio que tenemos los lectores de poder unir el magnífico diálogo intertextual Brönte [sic]/Rhys en un texto único, plural, inolvidable, y que observen cómo se aviva la llama, cómo se enciende el fuego inextinguible de la buena literatura. (Lola López Mondéjar) (Translation)

La Vanguardia (Spain) celebrates the 80th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca.

Clásico del cine, invencible al paso del tiempo, Hitchcock supo dotar a esta adaptación de la novela homónima de la escritora británica Daphne du Maurier, publicada en 1938, de un aura de misterio desde los primeros compases, con esa verja que se abre silenciosa y nos guía por un jardín frondoso dominado por una luna a la que sigue la silueta imponente del caserón, una imagen tan evocadora de nostalgia y ensoñación como tremendamente terrorífica. Du Maurier se había inspirado en Jane Eyre y Cumbres borrascosas, de las hermanas Brontë, para dibujar un escenario siniestro de celos y mentiras que se convirtió en todo un best seller. (Astrid Meseguer) (Translation)

According to Contact Music, Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights is one of several songs to 'inspire you to experience nature'.

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Nothing quite captures the bleak beauty of the Yorkshire moors like Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Kate Bush's hit song of the same name certainly does it justice in musical form. It's her debut single, released in 1978 from her first album The Kick Inside and went on to top the UK charts thanks to its captivating weirdness. (Holly Mosley)