Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, being metatheatrical, lays bare the constructed nature of theatrical performance. In referring to Hamlet's end and the Elizabethan stage conditions lacking curtains one of the characters of Stoppard's play says: 'No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second hand clothes, and that's death'. Who makes this statement?

1600+ questions on English.

UGC NET Paper-II English Syllabus consists of: 

Drama
Poetry
Fiction & short story
Non-Fictional Prose
English in India: history, evolution, and futures
Literary Criticism
Research Methods, and Materials in English
Language: Basic concepts, theories, and pedagogy.
English in Use
Cultural Studies
Literary Theory post World War II.