It's a direct copy of Emily Brontë's Jane Eyre (though her heroine wasn't submissive but extremely self-possessed) The male lead is always a variation of Mr Rochester – brooding, emotionally distant, misunderstood, with hidden depths, who is attracted to the heroine and accepts her for what she really is Modern romantasies like The Beast Within also pull[...]
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The series will be titled The National Theatre at Home, and they have revealed the first four productions that will be shown.
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April 2 'One Man, Two Guvnors' by Richard Bean, starring James Corden.
April 9 'Jane Eyre', adapted by Sally Cookson.
April 16 'Treasure Island', adapted by Bryony Lavery.
April 23 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare, starring[...]
Pride and Prejudice, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Jane Eyre, and more I'm also a fan of graphic novels (shocking)! So when the two are combined, I gravitate to them In Aline Brosh McKenna's debut graphic novel, Jane, we get an updated story on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
We open with Jane narrating us through her young life[...]