The Oakland Theatre Guild presentss
Wuthering
Heights
Heights
"May you not rest, as long as I am
living. You said I killed you – haunt me,
then..."
living. You said I killed you – haunt me,
then..."
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
April 1 to 17, 2005
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is
forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord.
There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years
before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine
Earnshaw, and her perceived betrayal of him. As Heathcliff’s bitterness and
vengeance is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to
escape the legacy of the past.
About the Novel
First published in 1847, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights ranks high on the list of
major works of English literature. A brooding tale of passion and revenge set in the
Yorkshire moors, the novel has inspired no fewer than four film versions in modern
times. Early critics did not like the work, citing its excess of passion and its
coarseness. A second edition was published in 1850, two years after the author’s
death. Sympathetically prefaced by her sister Charlotte, it met with greater success,
and the novel has continued to grow in stature ever since. In the novel a pair of
narrators, Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean, relate the story of the foundling Heathcliff’s
arrival at Wuthering Heights, and the close-knit bond he forms with his benefactor’s
daughter, Catherine Earnshaw. One in spirit, they are nonetheless social unequals,
and the saga of frustrated yearning and destruction that follows Catherine’s refusal to
marry Heathcliff is unique in the English canon. The novel is admired not least for the
power of its imagery, its complex structure, and its ambiguity, the very elements that
confounded its first critics. Emily Brontë spent her short life mostly at home, and apart
from her own fertile imagination, she drew her inspiration from the local landscape—
the surrounding moorlands and the regional architecture of the Yorkshire area—as
well as her personal experience of religion, of folklore, and of illness and death.
Dealing with themes of nature, cruelty, social position, and indestructibility of the
spirit, Wuthering Heights has surpassed the more successful Charlotte Brontë’s Jane
Eyre in academic and popular circles.
April 1 to 17, 2005
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is
forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord.
There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years
before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine
Earnshaw, and her perceived betrayal of him. As Heathcliff’s bitterness and
vengeance is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to
escape the legacy of the past.
About the Novel
First published in 1847, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights ranks high on the list of
major works of English literature. A brooding tale of passion and revenge set in the
Yorkshire moors, the novel has inspired no fewer than four film versions in modern
times. Early critics did not like the work, citing its excess of passion and its
coarseness. A second edition was published in 1850, two years after the author’s
death. Sympathetically prefaced by her sister Charlotte, it met with greater success,
and the novel has continued to grow in stature ever since. In the novel a pair of
narrators, Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean, relate the story of the foundling Heathcliff’s
arrival at Wuthering Heights, and the close-knit bond he forms with his benefactor’s
daughter, Catherine Earnshaw. One in spirit, they are nonetheless social unequals,
and the saga of frustrated yearning and destruction that follows Catherine’s refusal to
marry Heathcliff is unique in the English canon. The novel is admired not least for the
power of its imagery, its complex structure, and its ambiguity, the very elements that
confounded its first critics. Emily Brontë spent her short life mostly at home, and apart
from her own fertile imagination, she drew her inspiration from the local landscape—
the surrounding moorlands and the regional architecture of the Yorkshire area—as
well as her personal experience of religion, of folklore, and of illness and death.
Dealing with themes of nature, cruelty, social position, and indestructibility of the
spirit, Wuthering Heights has surpassed the more successful Charlotte Brontë’s Jane
Eyre in academic and popular circles.
By Emily Bronte
"Whatever souls
are made of, yours
and mine are the
same..."
are made of, yours
and mine are the
same..."