Foucauldian definition of power relations and a heterotopic study of the play will explain the shambles the two eponymous characters enter. This relation or conjunction, due to the chaos in the political sphere of the play, is unstable. Therefore, the heterotopias of a society share a characteristic: they are in relation with all the other spaces. Systems of control evade homogenization of spaces but provide them with a relational identity. The set of relations which shape either a monarchical or capitalist system of political manipulation creates heterotopias-spaces with specific functions. In actuality, they enter “shambles” (60, 107, 108). They enter the stage of Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead after the king has been murdered, an incestuous marriage has been hurried, yet before Hamlet’s plot is put into practice.
“Two Elizabethans,” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, are “passing time in a place without any visible character” ( Stoppard Stoppard, Tom.
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