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It’s the kind of hurdle Steve Martin faced when he based his 1987 comedy “Roxanne” on “Cyrano de Bergerac” he solved it by giving his Cyrano an allergy to anesthesia that precluded a nose job.Īnd that constraint is probably one reason there isn’t a huge difference in tone, setting or narrative structure between the 1944 version that starred Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine and the latest “Masterpiece Theatre” adaptation of “Jane Eyre,” a two-part series that will be shown tonight and next Sunday on PBS. Unlike Jane Austen novels, “Jane Eyre” is hard to imagine updated into a “Clueless” or “Bridget Jones’s Diary.” A governess could easily be turned into an au pair or a personal trainer, but a man who hides a mad wife in the attic is harder to transmute in an era of no-fault divorce and Thorazine. There have been at least 20 movie and television versions of Charlotte Brontë’s gothic love story, even more than of “Emma” or “Pride and Prejudice.”Īnd it’s all the more of a tribute, since “Jane Eyre” is not easily refashioned to fit modern times. ‘Jane Eyre” may not be the first feminist novel, but it is certainly one of the most enduring.
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