Television's mini-series have given us a taste for literary adaptations that approximate the entire content of a long work.
And several of the people he describes in the book were tickled with their literary adaptations.
Britton was perhaps best known for her literary adaptations and biographical plays.
But I believe that literary adaptations have become too comfortable a fallback when opera companies commission new work.
But it has also left the corporation in a quandary: how to follow its eagerly-received literary adaptation.
The answer, it seems, is with another literary adaptation, albeit one with a more modern heritage.
But there have been some great films that are literary adaptations.
That aside, it seems the author hasn't seen much of good literary adaptations to begin with.
There have been numerous literary adaptations and spin-offs from Macbeth.
Coca appeared in a number of literary adaptations for children.