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The Moor the Merrier.(Brief Article)

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From: American Theatre
Date: 20000301
Author:Sampson, Benjamin W.

When John O'Keefe was blocked on a project on which he was working, he'd often hop on a plane and head for Yorkshire, in northern England. Hiking across the moors near the town of Haworth, he would wonder, as Emily Bronte did, "how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

The Haworth moors, of course, were the original stomping grounds of Emily Bronte and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne--a set of siblings who created an astonishing collection of novels, including Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey and the above-quoted Wuthering Heights. The Brontes ...

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