| 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