Introduction: going on (and on) -- Defining terms. What is adaptation? -- What is appropriation? -- Literary archetypes. 'Here's a strange alteration': Shakespearean appropriations -- 'It's a very old story': myth and metamorphosis -- 'Other versions' of fairy tale and folklore -- Alternative perspectives. Constructing alternative points of view -- We "other Victorians": or, rethinking the nineteenth century -- Stretching history; or, appropriating the facts -- Customized narratives: copyright and the work of art in the age of reproducibility -- Afterword: different versions

1. Literature -- Adaptations