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An adaptation is an alteration of a literary work from one literary form to another. For example, if a work started out as a short story, it could be adapted as a stage play, and then further adapted as a musical, and then further adapted as a screenplay. In the course of adaptation, alterations must necessarily take place to make the work conform to the new form. Thus adaptations from novels to screenplays inevitably cut out large amounts of narration, merge events into one, and drop peripheral characters, so that the story can be told within the runtime of a movie. Because of this, adaptations can be more or less "faithful" to the original, being more faithful if it closely adheres to the original.

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