Read the excerpt from Hamlet. Hamlet: Follow him, friends: we’ll hear a play to-morrow. [Exit POLONIUS, with all the Players but
the First.] Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the Murder of Gonzago? First Player: Ay, my lord. Hamlet: We’ll ha ’t to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert in ’t, could you not? First Player: Ay, my lord. To make the First Player a complex character, Shakespeare would need to make him
I think this is thesis because it is the claim of the Declaration and it explains what the writing will be about. you might want to double check though just in case.