Read the excerpt from act iii of hamlet.

rosencrantz: the cease of majesty
dies not alone, but, like a gulf doth draw
what’s near it with it; it is a massy wheel,
fix’d on the summit of the highest mount,
to whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things
are mortis’d and adjoin’d; which, when it falls,
each small annexment, petty consequence,
attends the boisterous ruin. never alone
did the king sigh, but with a general groan.

which statement best explains how the excerpt exemplifies elizabethan drama?

the lives of saints are celebrated.
political power is discussed.
rosencrantz tells a biblical story.
rosencrantz recalls the details of his life.