How did the composer of the contemporary text use the earlier version to say something new? Use Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Tom Stoppard's 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'.
Title: How did the composer of the contemporary text use the earlier version to say something new? Use Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Tom Stoppard's 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'.
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Details: Words: 1532 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
How did the composer of the contemporary text use the earlier version to say something new? Use Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Tom Stoppard's 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'.
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 1532 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Only too often we find ourselves watching a movie, reading a book or listening to a song that has an element of something else consistent in it. Whether the original meaning is the same or it having being altered to the times and the changes society faces, the end result and the basic meaning behind it is shaped from a time in society when the values and themes of reality were in complete contrast to …showed first 75 words of 1532 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1532 total…line that defines reality and in doing so provokes uncertainty both onstage and offstage with his characters and the audience. Using these techniques, Stoppard is able to make a solid statement about his society, producing a play that manifests the attitudes and circumstances of his time, but also popular themes from Shakespeare's time and of his most famous work Hamlet to make it relevant and recognisable to the audiences of that time and of now.
