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Hamlet

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Hamlet and the Sword

There's a lot of affection between hamlet and laertes. Laertes wants his revenge, so they have a sword fight to the death. But it ends up being to the death because claudius, the king, wants to get rid of hamlet. So he has the tip of the sword poisoned. And just to make sure, he poisons the wine that hamlet supposd to drink after every successful hit. If he doesn't get hit, he drinks the wine and is killed. If he gets hit, he's killed by the sword. Unfortunately, gertrude, his mother, claudiuss wife, drinks the cup. Y et tell her,

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