In the course of five acts, his father is murdered, his sister goes crazy, and he tries to kill the prince in a duel with a poisoned sword but later ends up being killed by it instead.
In the course of five acts, his father is murdered, his sister goes crazy, and he tries to kill the prince in a duel with a poisoned sword but later ends up being killed by it instead. Not bad for a somewhat minor Shakespearean character whose major speech is a warning to his sister that contains the lines, "Perhaps he loves you now/And now soil nor cautel doth besmirch/The virtue of his will, but you must fear/His greatness weighed, his will is not his own/For he himself is subject to his birth." FTP, name the character, Ophelia's brother who dies fighting Hamlet.
In the course of five acts, his father is murdered, his sister goes crazy, and he tries to kill the prince in a duel with a poisoned sword but later ends up being killed by it instead.
{Laertes}