Points of Connection and Separation of the Text and the Play on the Example of Wilde’s and Zadar’s „Star-Child”
Points of Connection and Separation of the Text and the Play on the Example of Wilde’s and Zadar’s „Star-Child”

Summary/Abstract: Understanding adaptation as a two-way process in which the original medium and the medium of adaptation interact with each other, the paper analyzes the relationship between the fairy tale The Star-Child by Oscar Wilde and the puppet play The Star-Child by the Zadar Puppet Theater, directed and adapted by Milena Dundov. The two works are connected by a series of common elements that they approach and use in some places similarly, but more often differently. The key point of difference, in addition to the differences in the media, is the temporal, spatial and especially social context in which the fairy tale and the puppet show were created. The paper analyzes the similarities and, particularly, the differences between the two works, and attempts to notice the second part of the two-way influence — the adaptation’s influence on the source.

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