The latest film adaptation of Wuthering Heights casts a black actor cast as Heathcliff, and I, for one, can’t help wondering why this hasn’t been tried out before. In the novel, Heathcliff’s racial origins are not specified, but the indications that he is different, possibly racially different, can hardly be missed. He is referred to [...]
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18 Apr
“Wuthering Heights” and Romanticism
Wuthering Heights comes with an awful lot of baggage. There have been endless adaptations, all of them presenting it as essentially a love story with two very attractive protagonists (it being an unwritten rule of any love story that people who are not physically attractive have no business falling in love), and none of them [...]
