Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, written in the 1960s by playwright Tom Stoppard, is a transformation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. ... Language portrays meaning in both plays- the language of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead differs to that of Hamlet. ... Stoppard brings two relatively insignificant characters for Hamlet into focus in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. ... In Hamlet, there is clear distinction between reality and acting but this is not the case in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. ... Tom Stoppard is able to make clear statements about the society that has...

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Bernardo notes that the ghost is "In the same figure, like the king that's dead" and then questions himself "Looks it not like the king". ... Bernardo replies if it is really the late king's spirit why has it come back from the dead? ...

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With this declaration of guilt, it confirms the claims of the dead King's ghost in the previous act. ... Feeling compelled to respond to the call of his dead father, he is faced with the decision to forgive and forget or seek revenge. ...

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Throughout the sixteenth century, many of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Hamlet, were tragedies that readers could feel strong emotional connections with. Because of the popular infatuation with these plays, audiences were heavily attracted to the Globe Theater with the desire to see the...

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Hamlet finds himself so dead-set on this plan, that when he orders his friends to "Never make known [tonight's occurrences] "(1.5.158), he fails to even consider that the Ghost's order to "swear "(1.5.167) to this may in actuality be for he himself to heed, playfully ordering the apparition to leave, and remaining blissfully ignorant of reality in his euphoric ecstasy. ...

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