An Elizabethan gentleman traveling with his friend, Guildenstern, to the castle Elsinore to see their friend Hamlet. The Hamlet quotes below are all either spoken by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern or refer to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. That would appear not to make sense but they are similar, as a literary device, to Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – always appearing together and … They are unusual as characters in a Shakespeare play as he has created them as one character in the form of two people. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet . Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Danish courtiers whom Claudius tasks with spying on Hamlet. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Quotes in Hamlet Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are killed after Hamlet learns that Claudius is trying to have him executed, and forges a letter in Claudius’s handwriting ordering the execution of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern instead. Goofs At a given point, Guildenstern says something on the lines of Hamlet being a king and a friend with a good memory. Hamlet never becomes a king and in fact he is a prince. The names were common in the court of Frederick II and Christian IV, and also at the University of Wittenberg, an institution where Hamlet is mentioned as having studied (he refers to them as "my two schoolfellows"). Claudius, realizing Hamlet dangerous, sends him away to England. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet. The majority of characters in Hamlet have classical names, in contrast to the "particularly Danish" ones of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.