1. Introduction: Process and Practice.- 2. Collaborating with the Dead, or Adapters as Secret Agents.- 3. 'Playing the Maids': Playing with Adaptive Possibilities - Collaboration and the Actor's Process.- 4. The Not-So-Singular Life of Albert Nobbs.- 5. Adaptation, Devising and Collective Creation: Tracing Histories of Pat McCabe's The Butcher Boy on Stage.- 6. The Alien World of Objects: Stanley Kubrick's The Killing.- 7. Adapting History in the Docupoetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes and Script Poems of Danez Smith and Claudia Rankine.- 8. "His world had vanished long before he entered it" Wes Anderson's homage to Stefan Zweig.- 9. Collaborative Art with Political Intent: The 1933 Adaptation of Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter / The Rider on the White Horse (1888).- 10. Adapting Hein's Willenbrock: Andreas Dresen and the legacy of the GDR 'Ensemble' Tradition.- 11. Same Player, Shoot Again: Géla Babluan's 13 (Tzameti), Transnational Auto-Remakes, and Collaboration.- 12. Anselm Kiefer's Signature.- 13. Adaptation as Arguing with the Past: The Case of Sherlock.- 14. The Prestige Noverlisation of the Contemporary TV Series: David Hewson's The Killing.- 15. Things You Can Do to an Author When He's Dead: Literary Prosthetics and the Example of Heinrich von Kleist.- 16. Collaborating with the Dead, Playing the Shakespeare Archive; or How We Can Avoid Being Pushed from Our Stools.
