Onscreen poets

The Guardian ponders over the eternal question of how to reflect a writer's life onscreen inspired by the forthcoming film The Laureate based on the life of poet and writer Robert Graves.

Those years, between 1928 and 1930, turn out to be a gift for a film that follows in a hallowed tradition of lit-pics in which the introverted act of creation comes second to the “creativity” of writers’ love lives – think Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig as Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in Christine Jeffs’ 2003 Sylvia, or Emma Mackey and Oliver Jackson-Cohen in last year’s Emily, directed by Frances O’Connor, the glamorously fictionalised portrait of the least romantically inclined Brontë. (Claire Armitstead)

HITC lists the filming locations for the upcoming Netflix series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.

Belton House – Lincolnshire

Belton House near Grantham was used for the filming of Queen Elizabeth: A Bridgerton Story.

The location has also been used in Pride and Prejudice, the 2005 series Bleak House, and a television adaptation of Jane Eyre.

Belton House was the home of the Brownlow family but since 1984, it has belonged to the National Trust along with much of the estate’s contents. (Ella Kipling)

Belton House was Gateshead in Jane Eyre 2006.

Radio Times reviews the new ITV adaptation of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.

Still, the novel isn't as widely known as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights for instance, and as such doesn't arrive with the same weight of expectation upon its shoulders. (James Hibbs)

Still on screen, Collider looks for '10 Classic Actors and Their Modern Day Counterparts':

2 Laurence Olivier — Daniel Day-Lewis

Perhaps the two finest thespians of their respective ages, the only way for modern audiences to understand the reverence that Laurence Olivier occupied during his time is to look at Daniel Day-Lewis. Classically trained on the English stage, both actors became titans on the big screen, known for their physical inhabitations and accent work.

Unlike Day-Lewis, Olivier continued on the stage and was certainly less choosy when it came to projects. However, Olivier set the marker for who Day-Lewis would become, with Rolling Stone's Peter Travers, when praising Day-Lewis in The Age of Innocence, noting, "Not since Olivier in Wuthering Heights has an actor matched piercing intelligence with such imposing good looks and physical grace." (Anthony Clifton)

A contributor to This Is Local London wonders whether the classics 'should be read them in today's society'.

The Classics of literature: think Austen, Dickens, the Brontës. They were highly influential in what we know English Literature to be today. But how relevant are they in today’s world? Should be perpetuate the study and perusal of what some may consider to be archaic texts? [...]

It is important, however, to remember that these text were written in a time of Patriarchal suppression, and that a lot of them were seen as progressive for their time. For example, the headstrong nature of Jane in Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’ would have been discerned as rather delusional and outrageous in the time it was published.

El País (Spain) features a performance in which poet Luna Miguel read silently and continuously in public for 48 hours.

Miguel camina lentamente y guarda un reloj de cadena dorado en una caja de madera: el tiempo queda encapsulado. En una mesita hay un vaso de vino tinto, rodajas de pan, fresas, una frasca de agua. La poeta hojea varios libros hasta que se decide por un grueso volumen, un clásico, Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë. Y se pone a leer. En efecto, Luna Miguel va a leer en público, en silencio, durante 48 horas ininterrumpidas. Ah, y no se ofrecerá ningún refrigerio al público, aunque este podrá entrar y salir a su antojo durante el experimento. (Sergio C. Fanjul) (Translation)

Brussels Brontë Blog reports on a recent talk on the Irish relations of the Brontë family by Monica Wallace.