Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows more than a character |
Hamlet about father ‘I shall not | look upon his like again |
Ophelia: ‘mad’ hamlet | causes her to go insane |
Claudius praving : My words fly up | my thoughts remain below words without thoghts never to heaven go |
Verbal irony | when a characters words have a double meaning |
hamlet on C: A little more than kin | and less than kind |
H to G: Ay, madam | it is common |
Situational Irony | when a situation talked about by a character comes about in an unexpected way |
C: The King shall drink to | hamlets better breath |
H on C: will kill ”at gaming, swearing or | about some act that has no relish of salvation int |
Irony in Hamlet
August 29, 2019