In the combat the foils got changed, and Hamlet wounded Laertes with the poisoned weapon.

Yet I take the 'Leaps in the grave' to be an action intended for Laertes by the Poet.

[Sidenote: Laertes with others.] King.

Irus is moved by the Fear of Poverty, and Laertes by the Shame of it.

But out of the grief and anger of Laertes for the death of his father and Ophelia, the king, Hamlet's wicked uncle, contrived destruction for Hamlet.

In tragedy, his work took a wide range, going all the way from Laertes to Othello, while he sallied forth now and again into the field of comedy, and emerged therefrom with honour.