It’s tempting to classify Jane Eyre as a love story. It ends with reunion and marriage, after all. But its real subject is not romance — it’s sovereignty. Jane’s refusal to stay with Rochester is a ...

Thickets of men crowd around Jane, symbolising the obstacles in her path but blunting the tale’s emotional force. Brontë’s Jane is steeped in isolation – here, she barely gets a moment to ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Since January, the cast and production team involved with the 2025 Schmeckfest stage production, “Jane Eyre,” have been working diligently to prepare the musical drama for its ...

Charlotte Brontë's most popular work, Jane Eyre, published in 1847, has been adapted many times and in numerous ways, and the ...

How ‘Jane Eyre’ was ahead of its time — and still timely today Houston Matters explores what still resonates about the classic literary work and how that is portrayed in The Alley Theatre ...

Williamson’s adaptation opens with an 18-year-old Jane Eyre about to depart Lowood School, her home of the last eight years – six as a pupil and two as a teacher – to begin a new job, that ...

Other Alley Company cast members include Melissa Molano as Jane Eyre, Melissa Pritchett as Grace Poole/ Mary Ingram/ Bessie, and Todd Waite as John/ Colonel Dent/ Mr Carter/ Mr Wood.

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Despite arguments that young children have enjoyed Jane Eyre for 150 years, the Victorians were much more concerned about the novel’s influence than universities are today.