Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Allusions

Literature and Philosophy

• Scenes from Shakespeare's Hamlet are interspersed throughout.
• The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in Plutarch's Lives (1.187)
• Socrates (3.205)

Historical References

• When the player references "juvenile companies" he may be talking about the groups of child actors that began to appear around Shakespeare's time (1.161)