Bir çeviri şekli olarak uyarlama: Shakespeare'in Macbeth adlı eserinin sahneden sinemaya uyarlanmasında ortaya çıkan değişikliklerin yapıları

The purpose of this thesis is to scrutinize the assumption that in the process of adapting Shakespeare's plays into screen, in contrast to stage adaptations, changes in the original text occur. Shakespeare wrote his plays to be staged; so transferring them into another medium results in various modifications in the text. Though it is not impossible, preserving the original text as it is in an intra-lingual screen adaptation of Shakespeare is not appropriate or efficient in terms of an image-foregrounded visual art. Stage-specific textual characteristics of Shakespeare's plays such as his poetic language, lengthy dialogues, asides and soliloquies prevent preserving the full text in the adaptation. Apart from textual characteristics, different norms and structures of the two media is another factor in the need for change. To this end, this thesis will investigate what kind of changes are done in the text in the process of adaptation, the reasons for and results of these changes, common and idiosyncratic characteristics of the changes between different screen adaptations of Macbeth will be investigated. On the other hand, fidelity issue will be examined thoroughly in intra-lingual screen adaptations of Shakespeare in its effect on the patterns of change. In an attempt to provide a theoretically valid place to adaptation in the field of Translation Studies, the idea that adaptation can be seen and accepted as a form of translation will be scrutinized. Keywords: Adaptation and Translation, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Stage and Screen, Fidelity and Intertextuality, Changes In The Original, Norms.