Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

In Stoppard’s best-known work, Hamlet gets comically turned on its head through the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern—two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. The humorous duo struggles heroically to fulfill their purpose, caught up in a world where reality and illusion intermix and where fate leads them to their inescapable end.