INTERTEXTUALITY BETWEEN MICHAEL RADFORD'S MOVIE THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (2004) WITH SHAKESPEARE'S PLAY THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

The article tries to disclose the conception of Intertextuality by Focusing on Michael Redford’s adaptation of movie The Merchant of Venice for which director has taken raw material from original play The Merchant OF Venice written by Shakespeare. In a way while in the endeavor of adaptation several changes are made by director which gives a new aesthetic beauty to the text, the visual production of the movie in a way send the Shakespeare’s message to a large number of audience and make them aware with the Shakespearean theme. The raw material in the process of adaptation remains the same, but theatrical adaptation makes it more magnificent. The discourse of racism acquires new meaning in this whole process.