Tom stoppard's play, rosencrantz and guidenstern are dead, draws on the previous theatrical works shakespeare's hamlet and samuel bee's waiting for godot. rosencranta and guldenster are dead follows the stage exploits of bomino
characters from hamlet, rosencrant and guildenstern. while the two main characters in stoppard's play occasionally make brief appearances in "hamletas scripted in shakespeare's original tragedy, the majority of the play takes place in other parts of the
castle where hamlet is set. while off stage in this way, the characters resemble the main characters in the absurdist waiting for gedet. as in beckett's play, rosencrantz and guildenstern pass the time by impersonating other characters, engaging in word
play, and remaining went for long periods of time. these same two characters were also featured in a parody of hamlet the short comic play by w. s. gilbert entitled rosencrantz and guestem bert's playmakes rosencrantz and guenstern into central
characters and alter the storyline of hamlet
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