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. ... They are not people in search of meaning; they are characters in search of motiva...

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