Laertes (Hamlet) match begins, Hamlet apologises publicly to Laertes for the wrongs he has dealt him. Laertes accepts the apology, so he says, but he proceeds with the scheme to kill Hamlet (though after Gertrude drinks the poisoned drink he expresses having an attack of conscience). Hamlet is eventually wounded with the poisoned sword. Then, in a scuffle, the swords are switched. Hamlet wounds Laertes with his own poisoned blade, and Laertes then falls as well. Only then does he truly seem to feel guilty, for he tells Osric he has been "justly killed" with his own treachery. As he lies dying,
Critical approaches to Hamlet attention. Even more important was the question of decorum, which in the case of "Hamlet" focused on the play's violation of tragic unity of time and place, and on the characters. Jeremy Collier attacked the play on both counts in his "Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage", published in 1698. Comparing Ophelia to Electra, he condemns Shakespeare for allowing his heroine to become "immodest" in her insanity, particularly in the "Flower Scene". Collier's attack occasioned a widespread, often vituperative controversy. "Hamlet" in general and Ophelia in particular were defended by Thomas D'urfey and George Drake