... King, and the marriage of his uncle and mother, he has been depressed and crazed. While Hamlet's main character trait in Shakespeare's play is, perhaps, openness (he can't stop telling the audience what he is thinking) the Hamlet of Stoppard's play is much more mysterious. Those of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern eclipse his troubles, ... better next time," he too disappears. Thus Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who nobody could ever tell apart, are swallowed up by their own lack of individuality. PLOT ANALYSIS It is difficult to comment on the plot of R&G as a whole, because it is composed o...

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