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Two answers required. These two characters become vampires in a Jordan Galland film which references a pun-filled W. S. Gilbert parody named for these people. These characters tell a man “you’d be lost for words, you’d be tongue-tied” while threatening to cut out his tongue. (20[1])These characters substitute different nouns in the phrase (20[1]0[1])“Give us this (20[1])day (20[2])our daily (20[3])bread.” (20[2]0[2])On (20[1])a boat, one of these (20[1])characters stabs an actor (20[1])with a (20[1])(*) prop (10[2])sword. (10[5])One of these (10[1])men flips a coin (10[2])heads (10[1])up ninety-two (10[3])times. (10[1])These characters often mix up which of them is which in a play that ends with English ambassadors making an announcement about these people to Horatio. (10[1])For 10 points, name these two friends of Hamlet, who, in a Tom Stoppard play, (10[1])“Are Dead.” (10[1]0[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Rosencrantz AND Guildenstern [accept in either order; accept Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead]
<Jaimie Carlson, Literature - British - Drama&gt; ~26004~ &lt;Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
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