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Stoppard's The Real Thing (1982) is a more conventional play about love and marriage. It was very popular and convinced critics that Stoppard could write with more emotional impact and with less reliance on clever, verbal pyrotechnics.
Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601), the obvious source for Stoppard's play, is a nearly inexhaustible resource for comparisons with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Stoppard clearly acknowledged Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1952) as a major influence on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are...
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