Assessing the Dramatic Potentialities for Play Adaptation, Case Study: " The Pious Woman" in Attar's Ilāhī-Nāma

Looking at the history of adaptation from literary sources in various kinds of worldwide dramatic arts such as cinema, television and theatre shows that adaptation can well fill the existing text-gaps in theatre and other forms of dramatic arts. In Persian literature, although the literary texts aredescriptive, there are many works possess high dramatic potentials and may be used to enrich the dramatic texts. One of the works like this, known as Ilāhī-Nāma, has been written by Attar of Nishapur that considers with less artistic and literary value under the effect of his Mantiq-ut-tayrandTadhkirat-ul-Awliyā. It’s a work full of narrative stories from which some stories have considerable dramatic potentials have not yet attracted the attention of researchers.Relying on the importance of adaptation from literary sources, in this article, the dramatic potentials of the story “The Pious Woman” have been analyzed through a descriptive-analytic method based on 18th century definition of Aristotelian theatre. It has been endeavored to study the semantic aspects and structural features to get an appropriate source for literary adaptations.