In comparing your TWO texts you will have become aware of how the contexts of the texts have shaped their form and meaning. Of more interest, perhaps, is a comparison of the values associated with each text. To what extent has this point of view been your experience in your study of Transformation? The canonical Shakespearean play Hamlet and the 1967 transformation play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Stoppard are didactic examples of how context …showed first 75 words of 1169 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1169 total…really no purpose for them to be there in the first place because they are destined to die according to Hamlet. Transformation from Hamlet to Ros and Guil Are Dead reveals that context shape form and meaning. However, a changed context has ushered in a different set of values. By comparing the values of each text, responders learn that the inspiration of the known reflects upon the new, while the new resonates with the known.