Laertes
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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To keep up the “Hamlet” ties, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up, as a pair of henchmen trying to stop Scarlet, and there are cameos by Laertes and his father, Polonius.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
Bushy-browed Waterston began his acting career as a stage actor in New York with a number of Shakespeare roles, including Lear, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Prospero, Leonato, Prince Hal, Silvius, Cloten and Benedict.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024
Last weekend, just days before opening night, two of its key actors, Steven Berkoff, who had been due to play Polonius, and actress Emmanuella Cole, who was to portray his son Laertes, both pulled out.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2021
“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembering,” she says to her brother, Laertes, and “pansies, that’s for thoughts.”
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2020
He turned back with a handsome crested helmet in one hand, in the other an old shield coated with dust—a shield Laertes bore soldiering in his youth.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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