History Fridge / RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead

* Why did the coin land tails that one time? Because it was The Player who bet it.
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* The play lampshades some of the FridgeLogic in ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}'', including that logically Hamlet should have inherited Denmark, that (in ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}'') Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are [[TheDividual interchangeable characters]] who don't seem to deserve their arbitrarily cruel and anticlimactic deaths, and that there's no obvious reason why the King of England would get involved in the situation in the first place.
** England is a vassal state so Hamlet must be set during Early Medieval ("Dark Ages"). The English King does what he is told.

* In ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead,'' The Player's line [[KillEmAll "Deaths for all ages and occasions. Deaths of kings and princes... and nobodies."]] It isn't just The Player describing ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}'', and to a further extent ''tragedy'', it's him pointing out the simple truth of life: Death eventually takes you, no matter who you are.

** England is a vassal state (so Hamlet must be set during Early Medieval ("Dark Ages"). The English King does what he is told.

* The play lampshades some of the FridgeLogic in ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}'', including that logically Hamlet should have inherited Denmark, that (in ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}'') Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are [[TheDividual interchangeable characters]] who don't seem to deserve their arbitrarily cruel and anticlimactic deaths, and that there's no obvious reason why the King of England would get involved in the situation in the first place.

* In ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead,'' The Player's line [[KillEmAll "Deaths for all ages and occasions. Deaths of kings and princes... and nobodies."]] It isn't just The Player describing ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}},'' and to a further extent tragedy, it's him pointing out the simple truth of life: Death eventually takes you, no matter who you are.

* The play lampshades some of the FridgeLogic in Hamlet, including that logically Hamlet should have inherited Denmark, that (in Hamlet) Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are interchangeable characters who don't seem to deserve their arbitrarily cruel and anticlimactic deaths, and that there's no obvious reason why the King of England would get involved in the situation.

* Why did the coin land tails that one time? Because it was The Player who bet it.

* In ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead,'' The Player's line [[KillEmAll "Deaths for all ages and occasions. Deaths of kings and princes... and nobodies."]] It isn't just The Player describing ''{{Hamlet}},'' and to a further extent tragedy, it's him pointing out the simple truth of life: Death eventually takes you, no matter who you are.