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Tom Stoppard has transformed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, (here on in, written as RAGAD) from Hamlet written by Shakespeare.
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Tom Stoppard has transformed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, (here on in, written as RAGAD) from Hamlet written by Shakespeare. Both Stoppard and Shakespeare have created and presented values and themes related to their times and have been influenced by the social, cultural and historical contexts. The change of perspectives on the themes of death, fate and destiny, appearances versus reality and the use of tragedy and comedy is every present within the transformation of the two plays. Stoppard has transformed his entire play from Hamlet, by altering the focus from the Prince of Denmark to the destiny of two ordinary people. A major transformation within Stoppard's RAGAD is the concept of death. In Hamlet, death was portrayed in a very dramatic theatrical style, involving violence, blood, poisoning and duels. Hamlet also contemplates suicides and human mortality in a very deep and complex manner. Yet Stoppard has transformed death, to be...
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