Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existential, tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and the main setting is Denmark. The action of Stoppard’s play takes place mainly “in the […]