Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. They are childhood friends of Hamlet, summoned by King Claudius to distract the prince from his apparent madness an
A lithograph of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the flute scene from Hamlet by Eugène Delacroix
Prince Hamlet is the title character and protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark, nephew of the usurping Claudius, and son of King Hamlet, the previous King of
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
…Rosencrantz () and Guildenstern () are characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. They are childhood friends of Hamlet, summoned by King Claudius to distract the prince from his apparent madness and if possible to ascertain the cause of it. The characters were revived…
Portrait of Hamlet by William Morris Hunt, c. 1864
A statue of Hamlet with the skull of Yorick in Stratford-upon-Avon
Hamlet reclines next to Ophelia in Edwin Austin Abbey's The Play Scene in Hamlet (1897)
Marcellus, Horatio, Hamlet, and the Ghost by Henry Fuseli