"Adapter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all. Between that Tuesday and Friday an indecent assault had been committed on his book by a theatrical adapter named Stirling, who seized upon it without leave while yet only a third of it was written; hacked, cut, and garbled its dialogue to the shape of one or two farcical actors; invented for it a plot and ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... Schiller's subsequent influence and reputation, for discussion in the concluding chapter, let us now turn to a brief survey of his unfinished plays and of his more important work as translator and adapter. ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas |
