The plot was two corpses gone before we caught sight of ourselves, stripped naked in the middle of nowhere and pouring ourselves down a bottomless well. (The PLAYER, progressively aggrieved, now bursts out.) PLAYER: We can't look each other in the face! (Pause, more in control.) You don't understand the humiliation of it - to be tricked out of a single assumption, which makes our existence viable - that somebody is watching. I hope you didn't leave anything out - I'd be furious to think I didn't miss all of it. How did yours compare as an impromptu? PLAYER: Badly - neither witnessed nor reported. Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) Act Two GUILDENSTERN: Ah! I'd forgotten - you performed a dramatic spectacle by the wayside - a thing much thought of in the New Testament. Write a commentary of the following passage, paying particular attention to its main themes and to dramatic form.
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