The Intertextual Web and the Plurality of Meanings

This comparative study aims to compare and contrast Sophocles Antigone to its adaptation- 2022 Egyptian performance of Antigones Law- to explore the intertextual web in both texts that belong to different eras and the plurality of meanings. The study provides an account of Antigones adaptations especially the Egyptian ones, intertextuality and how it is related to the plurality of meanings tracing the evolution of intertextuality and its core. Foregrounded in the study is the examination of influence, context, allusion, tradition, appropriation, adaptation being encompassed by intertextuality. In this respect Bakhtins, Kristevas and Barthes contributions regarding intertextuality, Hutcheons Theory of Adaptation and Sanders arguments about adaptations and appropriation are referred to while examining the two texts. It is worth noting that the structure of both texts and the socio-political contexts are examined as they are of no less importance being among the elements of intertextuality. The study also involves the gender dimension in both texts with reference to the related values. It also questions the probability of creating Alienation Effect.