Comparitive study- "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and "Hamlet"

Yr 12 Advanced English - Transformations You have studied two texts composed at different times. When you compared these texts and their contexts, how was your understanding of each text developed and reshaped? Hamlet has and will continue to offer to its audience insight into valid and necessary values and concepts. However, one must acknowledge that Hamlet has emerged from a specific context with specific values, that of Elizabethan theatre. Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" (…

…to explore and find truth is undermined within R&G to better engage with the beliefs of its' context. R&G leads to a rethinking and reevaluation of Hamlet within the modern context. In terms of R&G we see a contextual transformation of language and values. Stoppards reinvention provokes greater understanding within a 20th century audience in its specificity to a modern context that Hamlet fails to offer.