Just what are the forces driving our obsession with the contemporary art of adaptation? For up until recently and historically, adaptation has not been a dirty word. The question is, has it become one?
Shakespeare himself, has been identified as a prolific “narrative thief”. But the Bard’s capacity to originally poeticise ideas, personalities, history, narratives, politics and just about everything under the sun demonstrates that ‘narrative thievery’ can become successful, legitimate adaptation.
