I think the answer to this should be A.
<span>"two different writers have made Rosencrantz and Guildenstern into main characters"
The other three options might be true, but they are not directly stated in the passage. The only clear statement that the author makes is that two different authors (Stoppard in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and Gilbert in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern") took those two characters and make them the focus of their play.</span>
Transcript of Irony in "The Pardoner's Tale" Pardoners sold pardons—official documents from Rome that pardoned a person's sins. The Pardoner in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is dishonest. The Pardoner often preaches about how money is the root of all evil