Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 14 AIL 1308 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dramatic Irony in the Speech
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The idea
Unit thirteen's device is operating: the audience knows something Hamlet does not, namely that he is overheard. Every line is heard three ways at once, by the audience, by Hamlet alone, and by two men gathering evidence against him.
In practice
Heard three ways at once.
Where people slip
Unit thirteen's device, inside a soliloquy.
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