Shakespeare, Sophocles : dramatic themes and modes

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Sources of irony in Hamlet

Stichomythia, chorus, soliloquy, as dramatic forces

Discovery, recognition, reversal: King Oedipus and Othello

Lady Lumley and Iphigeneia at Aulis

Foreshadowing and suspense: Agamemnon and King Lear

Dramatic characterization of Ulysses: Troilus and Cressida

Nature and the supernatural: Iphigeneia in Tauris and The tempest