A different take on Jane Eyre

Because the Milwaukee Rep is going to be performing Jane Eyre, I thought this might be fun to take a look at a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's book.  It's called Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys.  It was written in 1966.  There was also a 2006 movie.  Here's what a BBC commentator had to say about it in 2016, the 50th anniversary of its publication

"As any English literature student will tell you, Rhys’s iconic prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is rich in motifs and devices both modernist and postmodernist. In giving a voice and an identity to Mr Rochester’s first wife, Antoinette – aka Bertha, the madwoman in the attic – the novel has become a gateway text to post-colonial and feminist theory."

For the entire article go to http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161019-the-book-that-changed-jane-eyre-forever