Wuthering Heights
Listen: on Sunday 27th March on BBC Radio 3 at 20:00
A new adaptation by Jonathan Holloway of Emily Bronte's great novel of violent obsession. Heathcliff and Catherine have entered the world's imagination as great lovers. Yet they kiss once only. Dante Gabriel Rossetti described the story as: 'A fiend of a book. The action is laid in Hell - only it seems places and people have English names there.' There is extraordinary, almost unbelievable cruelty and madness in the story and yet its extremes grip us with an intensity, and each generation since the book was first published in 1847 has taken something different from this story of the ultimately doomed lovers and their disasters.
This adaptation contains strong language, which is not what you read in the book, or is it? An article in The Guardian about this particular production garnered some interesting debate. One contributor felt that there is already quite a lot of swearing in Wuthering Heights depending on the sensibilities of each particular narrator; moreover, that it is easy to reconstruct the swear words behind the Victorian dashes and asterisks. What do you think? Listen to the production and see if the strong language alters your percrptions of any of the characters, particularly Lockwood. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/22/radio-3-classic-literature-swearing .
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