... feel, one which the contemporary audience can relate to. Hamlet was a tragedy by definition, containing definite stages of development, with the expectation of resolution. It paralleled the social context of the Seventeenth Century, where the general belief was that things occurred for distinct reasons, and the eventual -right-turning of the hierarchy triangle would set things back to normal. Stoppard broke the Shakespearean trait ... both plays. An example of this is the theme of mortality. Characters die throughout Hamlet, and in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the protagonists ...

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