Start: Do you ever think of yourself as...
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King Claudius has urgently summoned Elizabethans
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Start: Do you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it? It’s silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead…
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End: In a minute someone’s going to bang on the lid and tell me to come out. (Banging the floor with his fists) “Hey you, whatsyername! Come out of there!”
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Grove Press New York, 1967, pp. 70-71.
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