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Ros. Ophelia!

Oph. (delighted and surprised) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern! This meeting likes me much. We have not met since we were babies!

Ros. The Queen hath summoned us, and I have come in a half-hearted hope that I may claim once more my baby-love!

Oph. Alas, I am betrothed!

Ros. Betrothed? To whom?

Oph. To Hamlet!

Ros. Oh, incomprehensible! Thou lovest Hamlet?

Oph. (demurely). Nay, I said not so – I said we were betrothed.

— W.S. Gilbert, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern”, 1874

(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.

Hamlet: The stars are beautiful tonight.

Ophelia: Yeah.

Hamlet: You know who else is beautiful?

Ophelia: Rosencrantz.

Hamlet:

Hamlet:

Interesting is that dramatist W.S. Gilbert who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" (1874) and shipped Rosencrantz and Ophelia died while attempting to rescue a young woman from drowning.

Rosencrantz and Ophelia in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead” (2009). The fragment is based on the play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern” by W.S. Gilbert.