"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", a play by Tom Stoppard, takes place both in a kind of no-man's-land and the actual setting of "Hamlet". "Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" is in several ways an essay in sustained liminality ... only via a condition of complete liminality can Hamlet finally see the way forward". In the play "Waiting for Godot" for the entire length of the play, two men walk around restlessly on an empty stage. They alternate between hope and hopelessness. At times one forgets what they are even waiting for, and the other reminds him: "We are waiting for Godot". The identity of 'Godot' is never revealed, and perhaps the men do not know Godot's identity. The men are trying to keep up their spirits as they wander the empty stage, waiting.