(MC) Read the following passage and answer the question that follows: Tom Stoppard's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, draws on two previous theatrical works: Shakespeare's Hamlet and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead follows the "off-stage" exploits of two minor characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. While the two main characters in Stoppard's play occasionally make brief appearances in "Hamlet," as scripted in Shakespeare's original tragedy, the majority of the play takes place in other parts of the castle where Hamlet is
The way the characters are represented in Waiting for Godot is similar to a style of theatre also seen in the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The way the characters are represented in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is similar to a style of theatre also seen in the play Waiting for Godot. The unpopular changes made to Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead were corrected later in the play Waiting for Godot. The unpopular changes made to Hamlet in Waiting for Godot were corrected later in the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
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