Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Hamlet’s childhood friends
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are important characters in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet have known each other since their childhood. They were brought up together and have kept in touch ever since.
Hamlet’s mother Gertrude even believes that her son considers the two his best friends: “Good gentlemen, he hath much talk’d of you; And sure I am two men there are not living To whom he more adheres.” (2.2.19-21). Hamlet indeed seems to hold his two friends in high esteem at the beginning of the drama. At their first meeting in ...