Denouement
Revenge of the Red ShirtsEveryone whose name you know dies, except for Horatio. Talk about "casual slaughters" (5.2.424). After four acts of delay, everybody finally gets some revenge, all in about five minutes. In the not-so-friendly-after-all duel, Laertes manages to wound Hamlet with a poisoned sword, which Hamlet then uses to wound Laertes back. To clean up all the loose ends, Gertrude dies from poisoning and Hamlet kills Claudius.