Hamlet

Hamlet 1584

Cecil was thought of as the leading fishmonger in England. He had to promote eating fish, since he could not get the appropriations from Parliament for the fleet.
Polish pince Laski’s visit in 1583, author mentions caviar.
Play was written and produced prior to Felix and Philomena
Mission to Denmark in 1583 by Lord Willoughby, Oxford’s brother-in-law to give the garter to Frederick 2
Sussex’s death in 1583, Ghost of Hamlet’s father
Reference to plague and comet of 1582
Oxford’s boys troupe dissolving
Leicester (Claudius) accused of murders by poison of Amy Robsart, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, Lord Sheffield, 1st Earl of Essex, King of Sweden.
“abstracts and brief chronicles” is the point of ETC’s dating of the plays
“starve while the grass grows” is a quote from a letter from Oxford to Burghley.
In 1584, Oxford also writes to Burghley about legal matters and selling lands.
Oxford refers to Will Somers, Henry 8’s jester, who lived until 1560, as Yorrik.