Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,
a comedy by T. Stoppard , performed and published 1966 , which places the peripheral ‘attendant lords’ from Hamlet at the centre of a drama in which they appear as bewildered witnesses and predestined victims. This device is used to serious as well as to comic effect, for underlying the verbal wit and Shakespearian parody there is a pervasive sense of man's solitude and lack of mastery over his own life reminiscent of Beckett , whom Stoppard greatly admires.