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Tom Stoppard's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, draws on two previous theatrical works: Shakespeare's Hamlet and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead follows the "off-stage" exploits of two minor characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. While the two main characters in Stoppard's play occasionally make brief appearances in "Hamlet," as scripted in Shakespeare's original tragedy, the majority of the play takes place in other parts of the castle where Hamlet is set. While "off stage" in this way, the characters resemble the main characters in the absurdist Waiting for Godot. As in Beckett's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern pass the time by impersonating other characters, engaging in word play, and remaining silent for long periods of time. These same two characters were also featured in a parody of Hamlet, the short comic play by W. S. Gilbert entitled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Gilbert's play makes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern into central characters and alters the storyline of Hamlet.

According to the passage what message is the author trying to convey about Tom Stoppard? Provide evidence from the text to support your answer.

Answer 1

Answer:

The sentence from this passage that explains what the main characters do in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is "As in Beckett's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern pass the time by impersonating other characters, engaging in word play, and remaining silent for long periods of time."

Explanation:

Tom Stoppard's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, take this two characters from Hamlet's childhood that have been used in several plays before, here is a description of their activities which are not different from the activities they had in previous works, it is not mentioned what activities from Hamlet do they do, just from Beckett's play.