Tuesday, March 22, 2011

BBC dummies down Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff, you're a God Damn Motherfucker.

Nope, doesn't make it better for me.

A contemporary adaptation of Emily Bronte's 1847 classic Wuthering Heights is to air on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday - complete with swear words.

Playwright Jonathan Holloway said he had introduced expletives into the tempestuous tale of romance "to shift the production to left field".

He said he wanted to "capture the shock" of the book's original release.


These people need to get out more.

The article is fuzzily written, and it's hard to tell if the words come from the original novel.

Maybe I need to get out more.

Read more here.

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