Transformations between Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

"How has the composer of the contemporary text used the earlier text to say something new? Answer the question in relation to the two prescribed texts that you have studied."
The author Tom Stoppard of "Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead" has re-contextualised parts of the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare to make a post-modern play. Tom Stoppard has appropriated characters and issues from the play Hamlet and introduced the same topics into his version of the epic tale creating Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are dead ,although staying within the boundaries set in Hamlet. …