Edebi kültler: Çağdaş tüketim anlayışının İngiliz edebiyatında edebi arz ve talep sürecini biçimlendirmesi

Abstract

SUMMARY We know that in the long course of the history of literature the writers who have remained outstanding have become the main source of the text written afterwards in the aspects of form, theme, characterisation etc. We observe that this reproduction process of literary texts has been realised around and within some literary myth and cult formations, such as Shakespearean cult and/or myth which has become our starting point. The point was this: the literary standards emerging from the literary canon from which the myth takes its power have been forming and reforming the textual production process. We have tried to emphasize that Shakespeare, a literary canon and a dominant figure and a mythical power of the Western culture since the Renaissance, has formed and patterned the texts reproduced in the realm of dramatic literature by examining the three texts chosen as Bond's Lear, Wesker's The Merchant and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildestern are Dead. We assumed that the Theatre has included the most appropriate textual models among the other types of literature to reproduce. Therefore Cinema, being the most popular mode of artistic production, has laid the foundation of the future reproductions of Shakespeare texts; and under the light of the recent productions mentioned the Shakespeare myth with its canon shaping the demand of the audience has been and will be the most profitable and reproductive literary power for a certain time along the course of literary line of history.