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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Rosencrantz
and
Guildenstern
are
characters
in
William Shakespeare
's tragedy
Hamlet
. They are childhood friends of
Hamlet
, summoned by
King Claudius
to distract the prince from his apparent madness and if possible to ascertain the cause of it. The characters were revived in
W. S. Gilbert
's satire,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
, and as the alienated heroes of
Tom Stoppard
's
absurdist
play,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
.
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