Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.

[CLAUDIUS] The need we have to use you did provoke

Our hasty sending. . . .

Something have you heard

Of Hamlet’s transformation, so call it,

Sith nor th’exterior nor the inward man

Resembles that it was. What it should be,

More than his father’s death, that thus hath put him,

So much from th’understanding of himself,

I cannot dream of. I entreat you both

That, being of so young days brought up with him

And sith so neighboured to his youth and haviour

That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court

Some little time, so by your companies

To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather

So much as from occasion you may glean,

Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus,

That opened lies within our remedy.

Which lines from the excerpt best show Claudius’s attitude toward Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

“The need we have to use you did provoke / Our hasty sending.”
“Something have you heard / Of Hamlet’s transformation, so call it”
“I entreat you both / That, being of so young days brought up with him”
“That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court / Some little time”



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