Metin Erksan’s The Female Hamlet as an intercultural adaptation

Abstract

This thesis analyses famous Turkish director Metin Erksan’s film, The Female Hamlet as an intercultural adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The relationship between literature and cinema, the discussion of originality / fidelity and then the interculturality is examined in the thesis as theoretical parts and in the light of these discussions, in the final part, The Female Hamlet is analysed as an intercultural adaptation.