Had to look for the missing details and here is my answer.
There is an excerpt attached to this which was taken from "Hamlet" and in this excerpt, the implicit and the explicit information can give as the inference that tableware was rare during the period of Elizabethan as it is today. Hope this helps.
was the mythical king and founder-hero of Athens. Like Perseus, Cadmus, or Heracles, Theseus battled and overcame foes that were identified with an archaic religious and social order: “This was a major cultural transition, like the making of the new Olympia by Hercules” (Ruck & Staples, p. 204)
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Part A answer: the first one
Part B answer: The Theme
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