The Guardian recommends 'The best theatre to stream this month' and one of the plays is
Wuthering Heights
Emma Rice’s adaptations always cut to the heart and soul of the source material, rather than getting bogged down in fussy details. This invigorating take on Emily Brontë’s brooding novel features folk music, a Greek chorus and a rock chick performance. Recorded during the Bristol Old Vic run in 2021, it is intense, beautiful and transporting. (Miriam Gillinson)
Collider has listed 'The 10 Best Laurence Olivier Movies, Ranked', and
Wuthering Heights has made it to number 3. Pity about the blunder!
3 'Wuthering Heights' (1939)
William Wyler's 1939 adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's [sic!] seminal novel launched Olivier into superstardom. Based only on the book's first half, Wuthering Heights tells the tragic love story between the poor stableman Heathcliff and the wealthy Catherine Earnshaw Linton.
Heathcliff is the Byronic hero by excellence, making Laurence Olivier the ideal choice to play him. In his capable hands, the character is somber yet swoon-worthy, a near-perfect depiction of one of literature's most famous and beloved figures. Wuthering Heights is less esoteric than the novel, but the film successfully captures the plot's sweeping quality, resulting in one of classic cinema's greatest romances. (David Caballero)
LitHub has a transcription of the recent conversation between writer Hilary Leichter and Maris Kreizman from The Maris Review.
I feel like Jane Eyre was maybe the first book I read where I felt that way. It was for summer reading in high school and I stayed up all night reading it for homework and then I just immediately started reading it again after I was done. Again, I haven’t read Jane Eyre in a long time. A lot of the details are lost in the midst of my brain. But I remember sitting in my bed with Jane, with Mr. Rochester. They were there. It was a moment that was a part of my life. It was sandwiched between the school year and camp. It’s something that I lived through and I want that feeling when I read a book.
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