"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is a play written by Tom Stoppard. It reimagines Shakespeare's "Hamlet" from the perspective of two minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The play explores themes of fate, free will, and the nature of reality.

Tom Shoppard wrote 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'. It is a play that was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. The play is drawn from Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.

It is an absurdist play about the nature of death: comic-ironic.

P. H. Parry has written:

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In Tom Stoppard's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Ros and Guil have a difficult time remembering their own names. They know they are one of Rosencrantz or Guildenstern, but are not sure which. Viewers of Shakespeare's Hamlet often have a similar problem, as does King Claudius, although the characters themselves seem to be clear on the issue in the Shakespeare play.