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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern did not arrange for the players to play Elsinore. They passed them on the road and thus were aware that they were coming. But the actors were on tour anyway and would have arrived in Elsinore whether they met R + G or not. Apparently business in the city had been bad because of a surge in popularity for children's companies (a comment on the theatrical situation in London at about the time Hamlet was written, ca. 1600)

Hamlet, an amateur actor himself, is excited by this turn of events and Ros and Guil report this to the King and Queen. Claudius commands them to "drive him on", to encourage him to involve himself in the theatre.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were schoolfellows of Hamlet, and since they were formerly friends, Claudius figures that they can gain Hamlet's confidence. But Hamlet knows that something is up when they arrive unexpectedly on the scene.

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To spy on him.

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