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OUTRAGED that the saga of Pippin's life did not end in an egoistic suicide, the players curse Pippin and Catherine and Theo, who stand in the middle of the stage, hand in hand. They remove all the props, the makeup, the costumes, the lights, and leave the trio standing...
Thrown out into the woods again, Pippin this time takes up with Catherine, a widow played by Alexandra Borrie, who owns a large estate. Eventually, Pippin becomes her lover and a father figure to Theo, her little boy. But Pippin even spurns love, leaving Catherine because, of all things, there...
Which brings us to the finale. Suddenly, Pippin is surrounded by all the players and dancers. They implore him to achieve perfection in life through a flaming death. Just as they are about to persuade Pippin to take his life, Catherine comes back into the scene with Theo, and Pippin...
That sounds a lot like the Heathcliff that generations of readers have loved. Even those unfamiliar with Wuthering Heights can enjoy Heathcliff's crackling prose and rapid pacing. Inevitably, though, the information that Caine contrives detracts something from the legend that Brontë invented. Heathcliff was not meant to...
Except, of course, that there never was a real Heathcliff. The power of great fic tion makes such facts unimportant, and both L'Estrange and Caine have paid trib ute to that power. The trouble is that both writers hint of further tributes to come. Pinnacle does more than...