... here, is that when he wrote this play, it wasn't supposed to be the sequel to "Hamlet", merely the same play through different eyes, in which case an understanding of "Hamlet" is not necessary in order for "R & G are dead" to exist as a play. However, the last section of that quote "Two nonentities surrounded by intrigue" shows that Stoppard is refering to the intrigue ... his father's death but also because he feels everyone has betrayed him, especially his mother and Ophelia: his mother by marrying Claudius and Ophelia by spying on him at the behest of her father Polonius. Now he disc...

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