emendation

“The Institute,” a 2019 novel by Stephen King, Maine’s Master of the Macabre — or horror, I just said macabre for the alliteration — has become a miniseries with some major additions and minor emendations.

Donald Trump might have taken his recent charge that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” right out of the Strangelove screenplay, with only modest emendation needed.

Despite these emendations, this “Seagull” remains surprisingly faithful to the spirit, if not the letter, of Chekhov’s original.

Between narrative passages, we can see editorial notes for future emendations, e.g.

Our scripts are just filled with that same sort of crossing out and emendations that Hemingway did.