| The relationship lasted almost ten years, until the pair worked together in an acclaimed production of Hamlet. |
| In the scuffle, they exchange rapiers and Hamlet slices Laertes with the venomous weapon. |
| The first quarto of Hamlet offers its audience an interesting new way of looking at an extremely familiar text. |
| Having won the fight, Hamlet married his brother's widow Gertrude who acquired the status of jointress rather than that of queen dowager. |
| In the second act, Hamlet immersed himself in fraught retrospection over Ophelia's death. |
| At the core of Hamlet is a domestic triangle in which Claudius's stepson does his level best to break up his mother's remarriage. |
