A Study of Intertextual Relationship Between History and Drama with a Reference to A Man for All Seasons

The topic of adaptation of historical and other texts has been one of the important topics amongs critics. This kind of adaptation is a way to create new texts, to the extent that some critics believe that there is no text that does not refer to another text in history; In fact, in the literary circle, thinkers and writers keep refering to other works produced in the past. Thus, history can also be considered as a reliable source for adoption of works both in the past and future. Here, intertextuality stands for the shaping of a text's meaning by another text; it plays important role in establishing relationship between tha past history and the modern dramatic texts. An attempt is made by the authors in this article to focus on the theories of such theoricians like Kristava, Hucheon, Barthes, and the the theory of anxiety of Bloom. The methodology used in this article is descriptive- analytical, and library- based. The authors have attepted to answer the question of how a new historical perspective has appeared with the creation of the play, A Man for All Seasons. The results indicate that in this kind of dramatic adaptation from history, Robert Bolt has been able to represent the new perspective in history.