adaptator

plural adaptators

1. rareSynonym of adapter.

   [Gabriel] Faerno was one of the many translator-imitators, or rather adaptators, of Aesop and Phaedrus, antedating [Jean de] La Fontaine by one hundred years.

   1981, Jacques Barchilon, Peter Flinders, “Last Years and Last Works”, in Charles Perrault (Twayne’s World Authors Series; 639), Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 151

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   Yet it was an improvement on the stage plays of the former age, when tragedies and comedies were imported from France with an avidity not to be exceeded by the minor adaptators of the present time.

   1842 August, Edward Mayhew, “The English Stage, Showing the Cause of Its Excellence, the Reason of Its Decline, and the Source from Which It Will Be Revived”, in The Monthly Magazine, volume XCVI, number DXLVIII, London, page 189

   This trend in King Lear revisions is representative of a general tendency when it comes to [William] Shakespeare spin-offs: namely, that adaptators of Shakespeare often see it as their particular mission to give voice to the characters in Shakespeare who are mistreated, misunderstood, or just plain missing.

   2007, Amy Scott-Douglass, “[Theater] Introduction, ‘Dramatic Shakespeare: Stars and Spin-offs’”, in Richard Burt, editor, Shakespeares after Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture, volume 2, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 739, column 2

   Synonyms: adapter