'A lot of nineties-does-seventies-does-thirties-does-Brontë-heroine-dying-of-a-chill'

We have one more review of Red Orchid Theatre’s take on The Moors today. From Chicago Reader:

Jen Silverman’s The Moors is a brilliantly executed pastiche of everything from Wuthering Heights (the gloomy insalubrious environs of the title) to Rebecca, complete with a menacing parlor maid/scullery maid named either Marjory or Mallory, and suffering from either an unwanted pregnancy or typhus, depending on what room you catch her in. (Played to perfection in either case by Jennifer Engstrom.) But it’s the underlying tone of isolation and repression that takes both the script and Kirsten Fitzgerald’s stellar production for A Red Orchid Theatre (their first live show in two years) beyond the antic genre satire of Charles Ludlam’s The Mystery of Irma Vep into dark existential absurdism. (Kerry Reid)

Game Rant considers Jane Eyre 2011 to be one of '10 Great Beauty & The Beast Movies That Are Not Disney'.

4/10

Jane Eyre (2011)

Fans of Beauty & The Beast could argue that the Jane Eyre novel from Charlotte Bronte is very similar to the aforementioned story. After all, both stories revolve around a young woman who falls in love with a beast and eventually transforms him into a better man. This time around, Jane Eyre talks of how the proverbial protagonist eventually gets to become the governess of the manor belonging to Edward Rochester, a stern man.

Key to Jane Eyre’s story is how the kind-hearted Jane Eyre will eventually change the nature of Rochester, essentially “transforming” him from a sinful man into someone even worthy of the love of Jane. It’s this transformation that remains key to the appeal of Jane Eyre, with the 2011 film being considered one of the best films of the year. (Rhenn Taguiam)

Il Libraio (Italy) has an article on triangles and how they are 'love's most powerful geometry'.

Il triangolo tormentato e cupo di Cime Tempestose di Emily Brontë. Heathcliff, Catherine ed Edgar. In questa relazione Edgar Linton altro non è che un punto distante ed appannato, eppure presente come elemento inamovibile di comparazione e dunque di ostacolo alla linearità. È la stessa Catherine a spiegare le regole sin dall’inizio in un monologo rivolto a Nelly, la governante di casa. “Il mio amore per Linton è come il fogliame nei boschi: il tempo lo cambierà, ne sono consapevole, come l’inverno cambia gli alberi. Il mio amore per Heathcliff è simile alle rocce che stanno sotto di noi: una fonte di piacere poco visibile, ma indispensabile…”.

Il lettore ha dunque ben chiara la natura sbilanciata dei sentimenti provati da Catherine. Eppure continua a seguire le vicende dei tre e della loro progenie. La tensione dei triangoli amorosi funziona proprio così. Si avverte immediatamente che il poligono è predestinato a un equilibrio precario. Ogni pagina, ogni abbandono, ogni ritorno è una lacerazione ma non si vorrebbe mai assistere all’inevitabile strappo definitivo. (Giulia Baldelli) (Translation)

The Telegraph looks into the Dark Academia trend summing it up as follows:

There’s classical music, Greek myth and gothic architecture. There are shades of beatnik, touches of Victoriana, a little Dead Poets Society and a lot of nineties-does-seventies-does-thirties-does-Brontë-heroine-dying-of-a-chill. Think: Rory Gilmore goes to a seance at Cold Comfort Farm, and you’re halfway there. (Lauren Bravo)

Great British Life interviews actress Jayne Tunnicliffe about her favourite things in Yorkshire.

A cultural go-to?

The Brontë Parsonage in Haworth. I still marvel at the fact that all those classic novels were written in that one house, by young women in the wilds of West Yorkshire. So far from London and yet they got published!! It’s amazing and very inspirational. (Kathryn Armstrong)

Still in Yorkshire, Yorkshire Live features Widdop Reservoir.

On the edge of Brontë country is the beautifully bleak, isolated reservoir of Widdop.

Ironically, Widdop Reservoir wasn't built until 1870, 15 years after the last of the sisters, Charlotte, died.

But its dramatic setting could be the perfect backdrop to a Brontë-style gothic romance.

The windswept water is surrounded by steep, almost bare moors topped with angular gritstone monoliths.

Top Withens – the farmhouse believed to have inspired the grim Wuthering Heights – is three miles northeast as the crow flies.

Following such as direct route over sharply undulating fells and through endless peat bogs isn't recommended.

You can, however, take a 4.5-mile route between Widdop and Top Withens although it's fairly challenging and part of the route may have restricted access. (Dave Himelfield)

Book Riot recommends '22 Great New Books To Read in 2022' including What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri (July 5).