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'''''Rosencrantz & Guildenstern areAre Dead''''' is a [[comedy|humorous]], [[Theatre of the Absurd|absurdist]], [[tragedy|tragic]] and [[existentialism|existentialist]] [[play]] by [[Tom Stoppard]], first staged in [[1966]].

The play is structured as the inverse of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] ''[[Hamlet]]''. Two minor characters in the original, [[Rosencrantz]] and [[Guildenstern]], are the leads in this play; they are on-stage here when they are off-stage in Shakespeare's play, with the exception of a few short scenes taken directly from the original.