The Routledge Companion to Adaptation offers a wide-ranging perspective on current scholarship in the area of adaptation. While providing a basis in source oriented studies such as novel-to-stage and stage-to-film adaptations, it also brings to the fore the new and innovative elements currently being witnessed in this field. An emphasis on adaptation as a form of practice seeks to establish methods of investigating the topic that go beyond a purely comparative, case study model. Divided into five sections - Geography, Historiography, Identity, Technology and Reception - this is an essential resource that maps the field of adaptation across genres and disciplines.

Introduction to the Companion Part I: Mapping the field 1. Pause, rewind, replay: adaptation, intertextuality and (re)defining adaptation studies 2. The Theory of badaptation 3. Adaptation and the concept of the original 4. An evolutionary view of cultural adaptation: some considerations Part II: Historiography 5. Towards a historical turn: adaptation studies and the challenges of history 6. Not just the facts: adaptation, illustration, and history 7. Dialogism's radical texts and the death of the radical vanguard critic 8. Adaptations and the media 9. Literary biopics: adaptation as historiographic metafiction 10. Notoriously bad: early film-to-video game adaptations (1982-1994) 11. Rosas: appropriation as afterlife 12. Adaptations, culture-texts and the literary canon: on the making of nineteenth-century classics Part III: Identity 13. Queer adaptation 14. Fidelity, medium specificity, (in)determinacy: identities that matter 15. The critic-as-adapter 16. Adaptation's originality problem: "grappling with the thorny issue of what constitutes originality" 17. Migration, symbolic geography, and contrapuntal identities: when death comes to Pemberley 18. Adapting identities: performing the self 19. Adaptations down under: reading national identity through the lens of adaptation studies 20. Adaptation and the Australian film revival Part IV: Reception 21. Embodying change: adaptation, the senses, and media revolution 22. Great voices speak alike: Orson Welles's radio adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérable 23. Lux presents Hollywood: films on the radio during the 'golden age' of broadcasting 24. Reconfiguring the Nordic Noir brand: Nordic Noir TV crime drama as remake 25. Tweeting from the grave: Shakespeare, adaptation, and social media 26. Adaptation, fidelity and reception Part V: Technology 27. Adaptation from the temporal to the spatial: materialising Dicken's imaginings 28. An art of borrowing: the intermedial sources of adaptation 29. Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality, and screened performance 30. Sidewalk Stories: re-sounding silent film 31. Adaptation as a function of technology and its role in the definition of medium specificity 32. Sound stories: audio drama and adaptation 33. Adaptation and new media: establishing the video game as an adaptive medium 34. Memes, GIFs, and remix culture: compact appropriation in everyday digital life

Dennis Cutchins is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, USA.

Katja Krebs is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

Eckart Voigts is Professor of English Literature at TU Braunschweig, Germany.