Adaptation studies finds its way as an authorized discipline in the realm of comparative literature. This paper scrutinizes Tavakoli’s reading of Glass Menagerie in the course of adaptation. Though adaptation is a literal reading of an already existing text, it is a new cultural product rather than a byproduct of an original text. With the help of interdisciplinarity, comparative literature and adaptation studies break the boundaries between literature and cinema, written texts and multimedia, and the canons and the popular literature. Thus, the text and the context are of equal importance. Hence, the adaptation of Glass Menagerie (Williams, 1945) as Here without Me (Dir. Tavakoli, 2011) should not be evaluated according to its fidelity to Williams’s text. This paper studies Tavakoli’s creative interpretation of Glass Menagerie, adapted in Iranian cinema of the early 2010s.

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