The plays adapted from "Ferhat ile Şirin"s story

In this study, it was aimed to examine how a modern play transforms the theme and the form in Ferhat and Sirin?s story. While the plays were being examined, they were associated with a text passed into a written form from the aural tradition in terms of ?intertextual? context in order to reveal how the story was presented by modernizing it and how the content of it was changed. The main data for analyzing the adaptations based on Ferhat and Sirin?s story were six different plays developed from different point of views. Textual and linguistic formations, rhetoric of the texts, the differences of the texts from the original story in terms of aesthetic and creative respects, the existence of the meaning loses and deviations, the effect of the theatre techniques on the form of the story etc. were the topics examined in the scope of this study. This study which was carried out to reveal how cultural values were adopted to present era by modernizing them, the points where the writer diverged from the original text and how the narration developed according to the necessities of the era and according to the linguistic power of the writer is believed to be an example for the similar studies.