its sexual suggestiveness. The film, Stealing Heaven (1988), chronicles their story and stars Derek de Lint, Kim Thomson, and Denholm Elliott. The film is based on Marion Meade's 1979 novel of same name. In the 58th episode of The Sopranos (Sentimental Education), Carmela Soprano finds a copy of The Letters of Abelard & Héloïse while using her ex-marital lover Mr. Wegler's bathroom. The book alludes both to the impossibility of Carmela and Mr. Wegler's romantic affair, and arguably, and ironically, to the doomed platonic love between Carmela and her daughter, Meadow: for many years it was a mother-daughter tradition to have tea under the portrait of Eloise at the Plaza Hotel. Anne Carson's 2005 collection Decreation includes a screenplay about Abelard and Héloïse. Henry Miller uses Abelard's "Foreword to Historia Calamitatum" as the motto of Tropic of Capricorn (1938). Howard Brenton's play In Extremis: The Story of Abelard & Heloise was premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in 2006. Michael Shenefelt's stage play, Heloise, 2019 See also Peter Abelard Peter the Venerable Bernard of Clairvaux Astrolabe Stealing Heaven Hildegarde of Bingen Teresa of Avila Sei Shōnagon References Further reading Abelard and Heloise. The Letters and Other Writings. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by William Levitan. Selected songs and poems translated by Stanley Lombardo and Barbara Thorburn. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Co., 2007. External links The Letters of Abelard and Heloise About.com article Short history of Abelard and Heloise with references. Newer musical of the story of Abélard and Héloïse Abelard and Heloise from In Our Time (BBC Radio 4) 1164 deaths Benedictine abbesses French Roman Catholic abbesses Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 12th-century French nuns 12th-century French writers 12th-century French women writers French women writers French philosophers French women philosophers 12th-century philosophers Love stories Catholic philosophers 12th-century Latin writers French feminist writers Catholic feminists 1100 births