Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Hamlet's childhood friends. Claudius sends them to spy on Hamlet.
They are friends of Hamlet's from school.
rosencrantz and guildenstern
He says it is a prison.
Rosencrantz an Guildenstern
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Hamlet's childhood friends. Claudius sends them to spy on Hamlet.
They are friends of Hamlet's from school.
rosencrantz and guildenstern
Guildenstern and Rosencrantz
Claudius and Gertrude set Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet to discover the cause of his apparent madness
He says it is a prison.
Rosencrantz an Guildenstern
True. Hamlet changed the king's orders to the English from "Kill Hamlet" to "Kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern." He didn't have to do that; he could have changed the orders to "Give Hamlet some flowers".
Hamlet changes the letter going to the King of England to kill him when he gets there to say to kill the people who give you this letter,which were Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. So they were killed instead.
The royal couple are, in effect, recruiting Hamlet's old friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to spy on him for them.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are old school buddies of Hamlet's. They have been hired by the king to spy on Hamlet to find out why he is acting so peculiarly.
He plans to have them put to death instead of him.