Rochester hiding from the police

 A summer playlist inspired by Oxford World’s Classics in the OUP Blog:

1. “Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Based on the 1847 gothic tragedy Wuthering Heights written by Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush is sung from the perspective of the ghost of Catherine Earnshow, or “Cathy” as self-referenced to in the song.

As in the song, the book centers around the story of Catherine and Heathcliff who share an unrequited love, where Cathy is longing for Heathcliff to let her in, alluding to something more than physical. The ghostly tone of voice and dream-like melody is sure to put you in the book’s setting of Wuthering Heights. 

Read: Wuthering Heights (Ashendri Wickremasinghe)

Playbill announces that the 2017 National Theatre's production of Jane Eyre is available for streaming

The National Theatre and Bristol Old Vic's 2017 production of Jane Eyre is now available to stream on National Theatre At Home.
Based on the Charlotte Brontë novel, Jane Eyre debuted at the National Theatre in 2017 in a production devised by its original company, led by director Sally Cookson. The production also features music by Benji Bower, scenic design by Michael Vale, costume design by Katie Sykes, lighting design by Aideen Malone, sound design by Dominic Bilkey, and movement by Dan Canham. Bridget Cladwell has directed the production for the screen. (Logan Culwell-Block)

The Lancaster Evening Post publishes some pictures of the recent Dino Fest event where:

Thousands of people braved the extreme heat to meet Zeus the T-rex, Emily Brontë the Brontosaurus, Richie the Raptor and even baby dinosaurs.
There was face painting for the children, a soft play area, and Taylor’s funfair. (Michelle Blade)

Great British Life and The Blackpool Gazette recommend the Heartbreak Productions performances of Jane Eyre:

Jane Eyre
Continuing The Bishop’s Palace and Gardens outdoor summer extravaganza, Heartbreak Productions’ Carnival Spectacular is an original adaptation of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
In this unique version, the audience follows Jane through her many ordeals using a carnival as the backdrop. It promises astounding acrobats, jaw-dropping jugglers, and the death-defying escape artist, Jane Eyre. (Charlotte Skidmore)

The attendance was by far the largest across the country on Heartbreak Productions’ summer tour of Jane Eyre, which started in June.
The company’s debut visit to Lytham produced record ticket receipts of almost £6,000, the best ever for a July production at the Hall.
Paul Lomax, deputy manager at the Hall , felt that having the audience sitting right round a central stage made for an intimate atmosphere. (...)

"The show was powerful, funny and dramatic and the cast proved to be adept at playing to the receptive Lytham audience who surrounded them”. (Tony Durkin)   

The love of marginalia in The Monthly:

By chance, just after I had read this article, I was at dinner with some friends, one of whom said she had just re-read Jane Eyre. Several people at the table began quoting bits from the novel. These were not especially “literary” people, but it crossed my mind that perhaps Gerald [Murnane}is unusual in that he doesn’t recall the words of novels he reads, while insisting that it is only the words that matter. (Carmel Bird) 

ArtsHub reviews Daisy & Woolf by Michelle Cahill:

Daisy & Woolf invites us to reflect on the relationships between writers and canonical texts, between women writers and their literary foremothers, and more importantly, between women writers of colour and white literary feminist models. (...)

Foregrounding the experience of a woman of colour excluded by a white woman author, Daisy & Woolf has been compared to Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea, is a revision of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre that gives a voice to Bertha, the figure known merely as the madwoman in the attic. Rhys, like Daisy and Cahill oscillated between different cultures and was continuously subjected to unwanted curious gazes as a result of her mixed origin. (Intan Paramadhita)

The Artist recommends Jane Eyre 2011 if you love Persuasion 2022, Although this Jane Eyre is quite different from the one we remember:

Jane Eyre is a 2011 English movie released in the United Kingdom and the USA. In this movie, Jane Eyre is an orphan tortured [not physically]  by her aunt and was later sent to charity [not really]. Jane studied hard and became the governess in a rich house. There she meets Edward Rochester, and both of them fall in love. Later, Jane learns that Rochester is hiding from the police [that's new] and has been lying to her. The movie has an IMDb rating of 7.3 and is loved by literature fans. (Sarthak Kasija)

20 Minutes (France) lists (other) Kate Bush's songs besides you know what:

 Alors, si vous connaissez mal ou si vous ne connaissiez pas Kate Bush et son œuvre voici 5 autres titres à (re) découvrir d’urgence :

« Wuthering Heights »

Vous faisiez quoi quand vous aviez 18 ans ? Kate Bush, elle, a écrit cette chanson inoubliable, qui reste aujourd’hui encore l’une de ses plus connues. Avec des paroles inspirées par Les hauts de Hurlevent d’Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights, en VO). (Xavier Béraud) (Translation)

The Hot Press mentions Kate Bush's song:

You couldn’t say that she hadn’t been working towards it, with Bush’s 1978 debut single, ‘Wuthering Heights’, a delicious genre-defying curveball amongst all the punk and new wave bluster.

Today (Italy) reviews the film Mothering Sunday:

Jane è stata cresciuta in un orfanotrofio e non ha famiglia (acuta scelta quella del nome che fa pensare tra le tante a Jane Eyre anche lei orfana e cresciuta in una struttura simile). (Francesca Imperi) (Translation)

Silhouette Donna (Italy) recommends the second season of Sanditon:

Tra Jane Austen e Charlotte Brontë

Il tono irriverente di Persuasione non vi ha convinto? Allora potete consolarvi con la seconda stagione di Sanditon, serie ispirata al romanzo incompiuto della Austen, in prima assoluta su Sky Serie a partire dal 20 luglio e in streaming su Now. Si fa per dire, visto che l’abbandono della serie di Theo James (Sidney Parker) ha costretto gli sceneggiatori a dare al suo personaggio un’uscita di scena definitiva. Charlotte dovrà quindi fare i conti con un cuore spezzato e con le sfide del suo nuovo ruolo di istitutrice per conto di Alexander Colbourne, facendo prendere alla storia un’inaspettata piega alla Jane Eyre. (Veronica Colella) (Translation)

Nouveau (Netherlands) recommends a visit to the natural park Hautes Fagnes in Belgium:

Dit is een gebied om in de herfst te verkennen met Wuthering Heights in je achterhoofd, je vindt er uitgestrekte heidevelden en veenmoerassen aan de noordkant. (Ella Vermeulen) (Translation)

N1Sergipe (Brazil) lists some editions (or books related to) of Wuthering Heights. Alta Journal publishes excerpts of Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins where Jane Eyre is quoted.