Author Question: In adapting a previous work, what do modern playwrights advocate to be the best method for changing ... (Read 161 times)

segrsyd · **on:** Aug 27, 2018

In adapting a previous work, what do modern playwrights advocate to be the best method for changing without hurting the integrity of the original work?

A. Keeping most of the original script but updating
and making cuts to go with the change in the
audience, their understandings, and what entertains
them.
B. Taking the premise of the previous work, but
completely starting over and rewriting the entire
show with new references, language, and characters.
C. Translating or copying the previous work verbatim,
to keep the original theme and characters intact.
D. None of these choices.

Question 2

Comedy of __________ shows the ludicrous results of placing characters in unusual circumstances.

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word