Adaptation from Fictional Literature to Dramatic Literature: fields and applications

Changing short stories and novels to drama is one of the most important strategies of increasing the capacity of drama which can provide connections between these two fields of literature in favor of drama. Adaptation is always done in different cultures and gives some characteristics and capacities of fictional literature to dramatic literature. So adaptation could promote the capacity and potentiality of the drama. For this reason and because of the importance of adaptation in literature, this research wanted to investigate and analyze the dramatic adaptation from fictional literature. This study tries to find the answer to the question that in adaptation path which components could change from fictional structure to dramatic structure. And "transfer" and "transformation" how could find importance with what capacity in adaptation process. Based on these studies, firstly, the investigation was conducted on the structure of literature and drama and then on similarities and difference between these two structures and in this way some issues of dramatic adaptation from fictional literature investigated. To reveal the importance of this research the various conducted adaptations should be mention here. So this functional analytical research gives information about adaptation to play writers and investigates the probable weaknesses and short comings of adaptation process. The theoretical basis of this study is upon the structure of fictional literature and drama. It is used of library method. The used references have been studied in identifying and evaluating the structure of fictional literature and drama theoretically and scientifically. This research seeks to highlight the adaptation methods with the look to similar elements in structure of fiction, drama and other kind of art. So it is tried in this study to investigate and evaluate similarities between fiction and drama by analytical and descriptive method.