“There's a play by Tom Stoppard called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. It's been described variously as tragicomedy, surreal humour and black comedy, and compared often to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Following Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, supernumerary characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet who appear for a blip of a moment and are very unceremoniously killed off, Stoppard's work plays ”
