Shakespeare’s Dramatic Structure and Irony as a Dramatic Technique:

The five-act strategy is known as dramatic structure, and each act has a specific purpose in the plot's development. The play's time and location are described in the first act.

· It also describes the interactions between relationships and presents the drama's central conflict.

· The escalating action in the second act aims to pique the audience's interest and escalate the conflict, bringing it closer to the climax. The play's pivotal moment occurs in the third act, when the tragic hero starts to descend into their unavoidable demise despite the most significant conflict having been resolved.

· The play's action climaxes in the fourth act, which also marks the start of the falling action as the forces move toward the tragic hero to take his life.

· The tragic hero is destroyed by the tragedy in the fifth act, which also describes the effects of his earlier deeds.

Irony as a dramatic technique

Shakespeare regularly uses irony as a theatrical device to create suspense and tension.

· Shakespeare employed linguistic, situational, and dramatic irony, three different forms of irony.

· Sarcasm and verbal irony are extremely similar. It is described as the difference between a character's uttered words and their overall meaning intended to offend another character

· Situational irony occurs when a play's action or event transpires in a way that is entirely different or opposite from what the characters and audience had anticipated.

· When one character tells the audience what they intend to do, the audience gains an advantage while the other characters are kept in the dark. This is known as dramatic irony.