Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Two courtiers summoned to Elsinore pass the time flipping a coin that keeps coming up heads and trying to remember who sent for them. Scenes from Hamlet cross their path at speed and leave them holding instructions they cannot read. Tragedy watched from the wings, where the plot is always other people's.
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- responds to ↑ Hamlet
- influenced by ↑ Waiting for Godot
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