Hamlet is much bigger and better than it was supposed to be, so it's only natural that its existential death satire (if that's a genre) is too. Paul talks Tom Stoppard's brilliant 1966 play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Toronto: Thompson and Nelson, 2003.

Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. New York: Grove Press, 1967.