To prick his uncle’s conscience, Hamlet arranges for a troupe of traveling actors to perform a drama about fratricide. During the performance, he hints at the real meaning of the plot: “Tis a knavish piece of work: but what o' that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not. [. . .] He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. [. . .] The story is extant, and writ in choice Italian.”