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Shakespeare’s comic relief as Shakespeare’s Hamlet is recounted from another point of view, in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a new sense of witty comedy is sprung forth from the classic play. In all actuality, the play is classified as a tragic comedy, because although the dialogue and flow of the play is one of a laid back comedy, the play does end in death. It’s as though the two, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, put off a sort of dumb vibe, I mean they can’t even get their names straight. In the end though, I would have to say that their confusion is really the source of most of their stupidity. In one instance, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,