Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Author: Tom Stoppard
First Performance: 1966, Edinburgh
Published: 1967; rev. 1968
Genre: Com. in 3 acts; prose and blank verse
Setting: Court of Elsinore and a ship at sea, Elizabethan period
Cast: 14m, 2f
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern pass the time tossing coins and playing word games, while they await their entrance. They are not sure why they have been summoned; they are not even certain which is Rosencrantz and which Guildenstern. A Player arrives with his troupe and performs
The Murder of Gonzago, in which two lords with an uncanny resemblance to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are killed. The two recognize some hidden meaning: ‘Operating on two levels, are we?! How clever!’ Attempting to manipulate Hamlet as instructed, they find that he gets the...
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