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The Legend of Diodati: 1816     "'We will each write a ghost story,' said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to. There were four of us," writes Mary Shelley in her introduction to Frankenstein. At the famous Villa Diodati, Mary Shelley…

In Adaptation and Appropriation (2006), Julie Sanders describes appropriations as "frequently affect[ing] a more decisive journey away from the informing source into a wholly new cultural product and domain....[T]he appropriated text or texts are not…

In A Theory of Adaptation (2006), Linda Hutcheon discusses what she calls a "more restricted double definition of adaptation as process and product....[T]he source text is granted an axiomatic primacy and authority, and the rhetoric of comparison has…

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Ovid's Metamorphosis John Milton's Paradise Lost Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther