Topic > First Quarto and Saxo Grammaticus Historiae Judacae

So when Feng noticed that he was being feigned mad, but he was not, he sent him to England and told the king by letter that he must kill Amleth. This passage is explained in Hamlet, The Arden Shakespeare: “The king's letter to the king of England, containing instructions that Amleth should be killed, is cut to rewrite and sign with the forged signature of Fengon”⁵. However, in Shakespeare's versions, Hamlet was sent to England accompanied by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who had a letter in their hands saying that Hamlet should be killed, but he saw it and changed it, so that the people who would be killed were both, Rosencrantz and