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             or too stupid to heed him. Ophelia is Hamlet's love and is used as bait by Polonius, Ophelia's father and Claudius to try and prove his madness. "And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose/Will be some danger; which for to prevent." Polonius is Ophelia's father and a loyal retinue to Claudius. Shakespeare presents him as a man whose desire to serve the King is rooted as much in vanity and a sense of his own importance as in duty. The play shows parents controlling their children's lives. Polonius is an authoritarian father who demands unconditional obedience. But as well as presenting Polonius as authoritarian Shakespeare also presents him as sordid.
             "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" by Tom Stoppard was first performed in 1967. In Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," the action in "Hamlet" is viewed through the eyes of two players who journey to Elsinore at the behest of King Claudius and Queen Gertrude. The Royal couple has asked Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to come to Elsinore to determine whether Hamlet, who has "put on this confusion,' is really insane or just up to something. Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are reinvented to those of Shakespeare's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and today it is difficult to present them in the theatre other than as a pair of buffoons, a latter-day Tweedledum and Tweddledee. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are the Protagonists of Tom Stoppard's play; they are characters that h
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