Plays
1848 Jane Eyre, or the Secrets of Thornfield Manor
Adapted by John Courtney
This play was referred to in letters from Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams.
1849 Jane Eyre
Drama in Five Acts by John Brougham
Performed in New York with Miss Wemys and Mr. J. Gilbert and revised in 1856 with Laura Keene as Jane.
1854 Die Waise Von Lowood
Adapted by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer and performed in New York in German.
1866 Jane Eyre
Adapter unknown
Performed in St. Louis Olympic Theatre, in October.
1870 Jane Eyre or the Orphan of Lowood
Adapted by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, English version of her German play.
Performed by Mme. Marie Seebach and her dramtic company in New York.
1871 Jane Eyre, or the Orphan of Lowood
English adapation by Clifton W. Tayleure, of Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer's German version.
1874 Jane Eyre
Adapted by J.S. Houghton
Philadelphia
1876 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Anna Dickinson
1879 Jane Eyre
Adapted by T. H. Paul
A drama in 3 acts
1882 Jane Eyre
Adapted by W. G. Willis
Mrs. Bernard Breere as Jane Eyre.
1883 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Charlotte Thompson
Thompson played Jane in Tayleure's version in New York, Boston, and Buffalo.
1888 Jane Eyre or Poor Relations
Adapted by James Willing, J.T. Douglass, and Leonard Rae.
1909 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Miron Leffingwell
Chicago
1920 The Master of Thornfield
Adapted by Rose Bachelis Shomer and Miriam Shomer-Zunser
1926 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Phyllis Birkett
1936 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: A Dramatisation in Three Acts
Adapted by Marjorie Chalmers Carleton
1936 Jane Eyre: A Drama of Passion in Three Acts
Adapted by Helen Jerome
Original U.K. production had Curigwen Lewis as Jane and Reginald Tate as Rochester and Dorothy Hamiliton as "The Maniac". This production was later aired on British television in 1937
U.S. stage production featured Katharine Hepburn as Jane (images)
1944 The Master of Thornfield
Adapted by Dorothy Brandon
British production with Rosalinde Fuller as Jane and Henry Edwards as Rochester
1945 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Jane Kendall
1955 Jane Eyre
Joan Swift as Jane and Desmond Hettle as Rochester
by the Dewsbury Pioneers Amateur Operatic Society
1958 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Huntington Hartford
1959 Jane Eyre, A Play from the Novel by Charlotte Bronte
Adapted by Constance Cox
1964 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Brian Tyler
1972 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Joan E. Morgan
Jill Hopwood as Jane and Leonard McDonald as Rochester
1973 Jane Eyre
Adapted by John Cannon
Jacquie Dubin as Jane, Charles McKeown as Rochester
1978 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Lionel Hamilton
1978 Jane Eyre
Directed by Kazue Kontaibo
Japanese play
1983 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Christopher Martin
1983 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Charles Vance
1984 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Jonathan Myerson
Jenny Seagrove as Jane
1985 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Sheila Haughey
1985 The Childhood of Jane Eyre
Adapted by Sylvia Wharton
1986 Jane Eyre
Adapted and directed by Peter Coe
1986 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Fay Weldon
1988 Shadow in the Glass
Adapted by Valerie Lucas and David Cottis
based on Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
1988 Young Jane Eyre
An adaptation of the first nine chapters of "Jane Eyre", adapted by Marisha Chamberlain
1989 Jane Eyre
Adapted and directed by Annette Marten
1989 Jane Eyre
Adapted and directed by Judy Yordon
1990 More Than One Antoinette
Adapted by Debbie Shewell
Combines Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
1991 The Haunting of Jane Eyre
Loki Theatre Co-operative
Combines Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
1991 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Timothy Madigan
1991 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Christina Calvit
1992 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Willis Hall
1992 Lowood
Adapted by Margaret Schooling
1993 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Nick Jones
1992 Jane Eyre
First performed in October of 1992, this is a one woman show adapted and performed by Lisa Hayes.
1997 Jane Eyre
Adapted and directed by Polly Teale
1998 Jane Eyre: a dramatization
Adapted by Robert Johanson
2002 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Julie Beckham
Directed by David Crowe
2007 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Zsótér Sándor
Hungarian play More information
2007 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Alan Stanford
Directed by John Miller-Stephany
Feb. 2008 Jane Eyre
Adapted by N. G. McClernan
April 2011 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Amber Miller
November 2011 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Martina Montelius.
Translation by Jana Hallberg
Directed by Brigitte Obermeier
With: Jens Gärtner, Martin Hanns, Horst Kiss, Brigitte Obermeier, Johanna Trahndorff, Luise Weber
Presented by" Theater Sommerhaus -Sommerhausen, Bavaria, Germany
May 2013 Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Adapted by Daniel Kramer
An Available Light Theatre production
Jan-April 2013 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Laura Turner
Presented by Hull Truck Theatre
Cast of three plays all the characters
April 2013 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Bryony J. Thompson
April 2013 Jane Eyre
Adapted by Julie Beckman
Starring Sarah Cannon and Shaun Sheley
Mustard Seed Theatre production
May 2013 Jane Eyre, A Memory, A Fever, A Dream
Adapted by Daniel Elihu Kramer
Presented by Available Light Theatre
August 2013 Jane Eyre
Shanghai Ballet Company
Director: Xin Lili
Writer: Yu Rongjun,
Choreographer Patrick de Bana
February 2014 Jane Eyre
Bristol Old Vic
A presentation in two parts
Director: Sally Cookson
Jane: Madeleine Worrall
Rochester: Felix Hayes
June 2014 "Jane Eyrová"
Těšinske divadlo, Česky Těšiň, Czech Republic
Jane: Adéla Krulikovská
Rochester: Zdenek Hrabal
Directing and adaptation: Simona Nyitrayová
2019 - 2020 Jane Eyre
Produced by Blackeyed Theatre
Jane: Kelsey Short
Rochester: Ben Warwick
Adapted by Nick Lane