The problem with regicide...

So. It turns out that if Claudius was to confess to the particularly evil act of killing King Hamlet, he would be stripped of his crown (naturally) and be at the mercy of the new King - young Hamlet. As Denmark was a devoutly Catholic nation at the time (the significance of Shakespeare's family's Catholicism and England's new-found Protestantism is the subject of muchos, muchos literature), Hamlet would be entirely within his rights to demand divine vengeance and the immediate death of Claudius. He could, however, be lenient and merely mutilate him horribly or be an absolute pussy and just banish him.

Dean and Cat would have to decide...I think Claudius would be deader than a dodo in no time at all.

How To Do Shakespeare @ National Theatre

Saw this and thought of you:

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/51994/platforms/adrian-noble.html