Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Why do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern speak differently to Claudius and Gertrude?
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Perhaps this is Stoppard's way of showing that these characters are from Shakespeare's play, Hamlet. When the two friends speak with them, they use the older Shakespearean language.