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”