FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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the audience knows that Claudius will be made unhappy by the play.
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the audience knows that Hamlet is just pretending interest in the arrival of the actors.
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Claudius thinks Hamlet has recovered his senses.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are unaware of the reason that Claudius is worried about Hamlet
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Detailed explanation-1: -It also turns out that only Hamlet can talk to the Ghost while Gertrude does not see him. Another example of dramatic irony is connected with Hamlet pretending to be mad. To hide his plan for revenge, he makes Claudius believe that he is insane.
Detailed explanation-2: -The irony all belongs to Polonius; he is there to trap Hamlet and finds himself trapped instead. He has said he will silence himself, and he is indeed silenced. There is both simple irony and dramatic irony. The Ghost’s invisibility to Gertrude raises the question of Hamlet’s sanity.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is the irony of Claudius’s comment at the end of Scene 3, “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below"? Hamlet spared his life because he thought Claudius was praying.
Detailed explanation-4: -Situational Irony Hamlet unintentionally kills Polonius as he was spying on Hamlet’s conversation with his mother. Application of Irony: Hamlet suspects that the person spying on him is Claudius. Wanting to avenge his father, he stabs him through the curtain but it turned out to be Polonius.