Hamlet and Guildenstern's belongings and replaced it with a forged copy indicating that his former friends should be killed instead. A foppish courtier, Osric, interrupts the conversation to deliver the fencing challenge to Hamlet. Hamlet, despite Horatio's pleas, accepts it. Hamlet does well at first, leading the match by two hits to none, and Gertrude raises a toast to him using the poisoned glass of wine Claudius had set aside for Hamlet. Claudius tries to stop her, but is too late: she drinks, and Laertes realizes the plot will be revealed. Laertes slashes Hamlet with his poisoned blade. In the ensuing
Critical approaches to Hamlet points to the identity of Shakespeare's dead son Hamnet and the name 'Hamlet'. "Just as "Hamlet" deals with the relation of a son to his parents", Freud concludes, "so "Macbeth" (written at approximately the same period) is concerned with the subject of childlessness". Having made these suggestions, however, Freud offers a caveat: he has unpacked only "one" of the many motives and impulses operating in the author's mind, albeit, Freud claims, one that operates from "the deepest layer". Later in the same book, having used psychoanalysis to explain "Hamlet", Freud uses Hamlet to explain the nature of dreams: in disguising