CHARACTERS Rosencrantz - A bumbling, ridiculous but harmless Elizabethan gentleman. ... While Hamlet's main character trait in Shakespeare's play is, perhaps, openness (he can't stop telling the audience what he is thinking) the Hamlet of Stoppard's play is much more mysterious. ... In fact, the entire court seems to be at odds with the two main characters. ... PLOT ANALYSIS It is difficult to comment on the plot of R&G as a whole, because it is composed of so many disparate ideas. ... This is where the comedy often comes in: though they might be disturbed by their ...

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Or, by some extraordinary circumstance of character or support from a near one, that person manage to not only retain/regain self respect, but to earn the respect of others. ... Hamlet gets sick in the head and his life goes astray. ... When we look at a 'story of sickness,' it could be useful to add some 'medical' terms to the kit of tools we use for literary analysis. ... When a story is altered by sickness, what happens to the space the character has to act in? ... In other words, it is possible to see sickness as a motivating factor and a challenge of character. ...

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