1. Laertes is about to stab Hamlet. Claudius, watching from the wings, desperately wants Laertes to stab Hamlet and has implanted a device in Laertes’ brain that, if activated, will force him to stab Hamlet. Claudius intends to activate the device if it appears that Laertes will change his mind at the last moment. Laertes, however, stabs Hamlet of his own accord and Claudius’s device is never a...
