Hamlet's voyage
Content note: familial murder and attempted murder; bigamy. "Thus set it down," decrees Claudius of his wayward nephew in Hamlet: "he shall with speed to England, / For the demand of our neglected tribute." Later, after the murder of Polonius, he changes the plan, writing to his unnamed English vassal that Hamlet must die: but Hamlet discovers the letter, alters it, and sends his companions Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths instead. But who are these vassals, and w
