The multifaceted literary, aesthetic, and cultural representations of life we engage with today are often complex, intertextual, interdisciplinary, and transcultural. Adaptations, in particular, emphasize dynamic and interactive exchanges and collaborations. The textual and performative networking engendered in the process propels us through and beyond the traditional issues of the relative merits of the original and the adapted work, fidelity, dilution, and the losses incurred, or the gains accrued, which were so hotly debated in earlier phases of Adaptation Studies. Simultaneously, adaptation is no longer limited to a simple movement from the page to the stage or the screen. Whereas traditionally, adaptation meant transforming a literary text into different mediums like film, television, theatre, and other forms of popular culture through translations, trans-generic adaptations, revisions, parodies, and counter-narratives, Adaptation Studies today has evolved to include other forms of textual and cultural modes that have enriched the theory and practice of adaptation in the 21st century.