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Rosencrantz: Do you think Guildenstern likes me?
Hamlet: What do you mean? You're engaged and you live together. You're raising two cats and you're literally laying in his arms.
Rosencrantz: But does he like me?
Guildenstern: I don't.
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“To be taken in hand and led, like being a child again, even without the innocence, a child — it’s like being given a prize, an extra slice of childhood when you least expect it, as a prize for being good, or a compensation for never having had one...”
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
HAMLET: Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered.
OPHELIA: Good my lord, how does your honour for this many a day?
HAMLET: I humbly thank you; well, well, well.
OPHELIA: My lord, I have remembrances of yours, that I have longed long to re-deliver; I pray you, now receive them.
HAMLET: No, not I; I never gave you aught.
OPHELIA: My honoured lord, you know right well you did…
(They disappear talking into the wing.)
ROS: It’s like living in a public park!
GUIL: Very impressive. Yes, I thought your direct informal approach was going to stop this thing dead in its tracks there. If I might make a suggestion – shut up and sit down. Stop being perverse.
ROS (near tears): I’m not going to stand for it!
(A FEMALE FIGURE, ostensibly the QUEEN, enters. ROS marches up behind her, puts his hands over her eyes and says with a desperate frivolity.)
ROS: Guess who?!
PLAYER (having appeared in a downstage corner): Alfred!
(ROS lets go, spins around. He had been holding ALFRED, in his robe and blonde wig. PLAYER is in the downstage corner still. ROS comes down to that exit. The PLAYER does not budge. He and ROS stand toe to toe.)
ROS: Excuse me.
(ROS had gone halfway up to OPHELIA; he returns.)
ROS: That didn’t look like love to me.
GUIL: Starting from scratch again...
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Can’t see – the pirates left us home and high – dry and home -drome- The pirates left us high and dry!”
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Dear Diary
Day 17 of my exile from Denmark-
My truly loyal friends Rosenstern and Guildencrantz are slowly dragging my pre-deceased corpse to the Denmark border. There, we will book passage to England, and I assume my head will find a lodging in some basket. This fate I accept for myself. Gosenrats and Ruildenstein are much stronger than I, and while they share a half-brain between them, I cannot escape. The fools have already lost twenty or some odd pounds flipping them for bets about whether or not they were in an improbable reality. Any effort is futile now.
Time has stopped dead.
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Time has stopped.
Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot
Hamlet can be very irritating
Guildenstern: God, Hamlet is driving me insane.
Rosencrantz: He can be quite annoying when he wants to be. Don’t you think Horatio?
Horatio: *studying, distracted* No, no, I love prince Hamlet.
Guildenstern: Well now!
Rosencrantz: I don’t believe we’ve ever heard that before.
Horatio: I mean… I’m sorry, what did you ask me again?
Rosencrantz: If you find Hamlet irritating.
Horatio: No, of course I don’t! I- I enjoy being… around him. Academically, you know, he is always… stimulating.
Rosencrantz:
Guildenstern:
Horatio: Not in the erotic sense of the word!
Guildenstern: looks like a cinnamon roll but could actually kill you
(Ophelia enters.)
ROS (panic): I can't feel a thing!
GUIL: Give her a pinch!
(Ophelia yelps.)
ROS (laughs): Sorry.
GUIL: Well, that's cleared that up.
(In the third year of Wittenberg university)
Guildenstern: I fucked up.
Rosencrantz: Why? What happened?
Guildenstern: I'm falling for someone.
Rosencrantz: Damn. Must be a special person to make you fall in love.
Guildenstern: *looks at Rosencrantz* Yeah, real special.
A take.
for those who can’t see the picture, it’s a character alignment chart using characters from Hamlet. With the rows and columns put together, it reads thusly:
Bold of you to assume I have dignity - Gertrude
Bold of you to assume I’m straight - Horatio
Bold of you to believe I’ve reached my peak of dumbass - Laertes
How dare you assume I have dignity - Guildenstern
How dare you assume I’m straight - Rosencrantz
How dare you believe I’ve reached my peak of dumbass - Hamlet
Please assume I have dignity - Polonius
Please assume I’m straight - Ophelia
Please believe I’ve reached my peak of dumbass - Claudius
Niels... What a beautiful name 😿
I’m sorry w h a t
“Give us this day our daily mask”
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
made a quiz
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After the tragic events of Hamlet, background characters William Rosencrantz and Anne Guildenstern find themselves dying off screen. They end up dead and alive, everywhere and nowhere, allowing them to appear anywhere in time as they please.
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