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... Introduction In our scripted piece we worked from an extract from Hamlet by William Shakespeare. We compared this with an extract from Assassins by Stephen Sondheim. Our scripted piece was written between 1602-1604 where royals ruled society. In contrast when Assassins was written which was in 1990, society was democratic & governed by a President. Themes In our scripted piece the theme was set around a grave to which the two actors spoke. We called it the gravedigger scene. We were trying to work out whether or not Hamlet was mad or whether it was an act. But Assassins also deals with death and some degree of madness you could argue. When comparing this to our scripted piece it does differ in many different aspects. One being the story line, the genre etc. But they both deal with death and madness. Just in slightly different contexts. The other difference is
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