Confidence in your choices sounds close enough to the theater of stagecraft, though accessing your emotions was never particularly prized in Elsinore's family dynasty. Perhaps that's why the older Hamlet was so judgmental. But, Claudius can admit to himself, he was no less judgmental when it came to these things¹. "I suppose I'd rather you find out this way than any other," he says with a self-effacing laugh. "I don't read plays. I was a bit of a snob about them, but now I'm perfectly eager to learn." He flips through the pages. "What's this one about?"

¹ Publicly expressing emotion? No, thank you. (See also Act, Scene II of Hamlet, 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet ... We repress our emotions in this family, Hamlet.)