Rosencrantz ("rose wreath") and Gyldenstjerne/Gyllenstierna ("golden star") were names of Danish (and Norwegian, and Swedish) noble families of the 16th century records of the Danish royal coronation of 1596 show that one tenth of the aristocrats participating bore one or the other name. Gilbert's satire, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and as the alienated heroes of Tom Stoppard's absurdist play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which was adapted into a film. They are childhood friends of Hamlet, summoned by King Claudius to distract the prince from his apparent madness and if possible to ascertain the cause of it. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. A lithograph of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the flute scene from Hamlet by Eugène Delacroix
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