Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

I've been reading Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and I find it to be a very humorous yet insightful play. The titular characters are the protagonists (obviously) in this play adapted from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Essentially, that's what this play is: Hamlet from the perspective of his two friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The following is a passage from the play, one I find particularly interesting:

"Guildenstern: ...you can't act death. The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happened--it's not gasps and blood and falling about--that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all--now you see him, now you don't, that's the only things that's real: here one minutes and gone the next and never coming back--an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death. "

Death--whether this version of Hamlet be told by Shakespeare or Hamlet's two comrades--seems to be a prevalent theme throughout this play...however I think I like Stoppard's more light hearted and well-balanced version somewhat better. I would definitely recommend it.