Wuthering Heights’ race row is the height of nonsense
Most of us associate Wuthering Heights with high school English classes or Kate Bush caterwauling over the moors while exhibiting some remarkable interpretative dance moves. The news then that the Emerald Fennell-directed film of what she calls “my favourite book in the world” has become the subject of a race-based controversy may come as a shock. This has been seized upon by the book’s most stalwart admirers to mean that Heathcliff must be played by a black or mixed-race actor Yet the latest interpretation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, which is being released, appropriately, on Valentine’s Day, has already been met with contempt and derision by many before anyone even
